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Oceanography is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean. It is also known as oceanology.
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Would hurricanes on an ocean planet continue indefinitely?
What is possible in a low-friction world is illustrated by the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, an anticyclonic storm that has has been continuously observed that fluid planet's surface at least since 1878 …
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How much of Earth's oceans has each of the listed features?
The real oceans on Earth have a majority of their surface area (53% of the total ocean area) in the abyssal range 1.
Reference
Dierssen, Heidi & Theberge, Albert. (2014). "Bathymetry: Features and H …
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Will increased level of ocean acidity lead to more frequent acid rain?
More likely, it works the other way: increased acid-forming compounds in the atmosphere are the cause of more ocean acidification.
Pio et al. [1] report measurements of sulfur and nitrogen compounds i …
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Which ocean evaporates the most water per surface area?
When push comes to shove, the highest evaporation rate per unut area corresponds to the highest average temperature.
As this pair of illustrations from NASA shows, that would be the Indian Ocean.
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How can methylmercury in the ocean be reabsorbed into the atmosphere?
Much of the methyl mercury that enters the atmosphere may be dimethyl mercury, $\text{(CH}_3\text{)}_2\text{Hg}$. This is a very volatile compound which, if it were pure, would have 50 mm mercury or …
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Why is calcium so much more abundant in/on Earth's crust (and oceans) than it is elsewhere? ...
Two factors need to be considered here. Magnesium ions are smaller, thus forming more compact formula units, and they are also often mixed with iron ions which make the formula unit weight heavier th …
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Where does snow falling at the polar ice caps originate?
We can get relatively warm waters much closer at hand to Greenland than tbe tropics, thanks to the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift Current. It won't be Miami Beach, but the western coast of near …
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How plausible is it that "a portion of the ocean's floor" could suddenly be "thrown up to th...
The rock on the ocean floor is not likely to well up to the surface anytime soon. But methane can.
Methane, formed from biological processes or decay of organic matter at sea bottoms, forms water-ice …
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Why should there not be water deep (e.g. below 6 kms) in the Earth's crust?
Nothing really prevents water from existing deep inside Earth. We have direct evidence that it does, even in the mantle.
Evidence for such water may be found in Ice VII inclusions in diamonds[1]. Be …
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