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  2. Ocean surface ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    The ocean's surface is hit hard by anthropogenic change, and the surface ecosystem is likely already dramatically different from even a few hundred years ago. For example, prior to widespread damming, logging, and industrialisation, more wood may have entered the open ocean, [ 14 ] while plastic had not yet been invented.

  3. Marine food web - Wikipedia

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    In the diagram above on the right: (1) ammonification produces NH 3 and NH 4 + and (2) nitrification produces NO 3 − by NH 4 + oxidation. (3) under the alkaline conditions, typical of the seabird feces, the NH 3 is rapidly volatilised and transformed to NH 4 + , (4) which is transported out of the colony, and through wet-deposition exported ...

  4. Marine habitat - Wikipedia

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    Ocean processes grade loose sediments to particle sizes other than sand, such as gravel or cobbles. Waves breaking on a beach can leave a berm, which is a raised ridge of coarser pebbles or sand, at the high tide mark. Shingle beaches are made of particles larger than sand, such as cobbles, or small stones. These beaches make poor habitats.

  5. Marine geology - Wikipedia

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    [1] [3] The scientists' goal was to prove that there was life in the deepest parts of the ocean. [3] Using a sounding rope, dropped over the edge of the ship, the team was able to capture ample amounts of data. Part of their discovery was that the deepest part of the ocean was not in the middle. [2]

  6. Seabed - Wikipedia

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    The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean. All floors of the ocean are known as 'seabeds'. The structure of the seabed of the global ocean is governed by plate tectonics. Most of the ocean is very deep, where the seabed is known as the abyssal plain. Seafloor spreading creates ...

  7. Ocean stratification - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the southern oceans (south of 30°S) experienced the strongest rate of stratification since 1960, followed by the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. [1] When the upper ocean becomes more stratified, the mixed layer of surface water with homogeneous temperature may get shallower, but projected changes to mixed ...

  8. Swell (ocean) - Wikipedia

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    [2] The phases of an ocean surface wave: 1. Wave Crest, where the water masses of the surface layer are moving horizontally in the same direction as the propagating wavefront. 2. Falling wave. 3. Trough, where the water masses of the surface layer are moving horizontally in the opposite direction of the wavefront direction. 4. Rising wave.

  9. Oceanic basin - Wikipedia

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    This is achieved by creating a Markov Chain model of the surface ocean dynamics using short term time trajectory data from a global ocean model. These trajectories are of particles that move only on the surface of the ocean. The model outcome gives the probability of a particle at a certain grid point to end up somewhere else on the ocean's ...