Plate pressure is compressing the Mediterranean, but this sea, bordering Greece, is expanding
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Apr 3, 2010 ... Plate pressure is compressing the Mediterranean, but this sea, bordering Greece, is expanding. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it! Alex Trebek.
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Geography of Greece - Wikipedia  Greece is a country in Southern Europe, located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. ... A Mediterranean climate features mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. Temperatures rarely ... Greece is located in Southern Europe, bordering the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey. It is a...
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Plate tectonics - Wikipedia  Plate tectonics is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of 7 large plates and the .... Oceanic crust is formed at sea-floor spreading centers, and continental crust is formed through arc volcanism and ... of granitic continental lithosphere; neither mass is subducted; plate edges are compressed, folded, uplifted.
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ANCIENT GREECE Map  ... trade by sea. The first civilization in ancient Greece was located on the island of Crete. ... the Minoans, but the Mycenaeans were more war-like . ... and the Greeks and expanded his empire over a huge area that included the Middle East to the borders of India. ... Outline the extent of Greek trade in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Greek Colonization - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Oct 28, 2014 ... In the first half of the first millennium BCE, Greek city-states, most of which ... These could have varying degrees of contact with the homeland, but ... The Greeks were great sea-farers, and travelling across the Mediterranean, they were ... groups started to expand beyond Greece with more deliberate and...
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Geography, Environment, and Archaeology in Greece ...  In addition, the sea provided a moderating climatic influence: the so-called ... The ancient Greek landscape included both city and country. ... the population and could trade their own products with other areas like the grain-rich Black Sea region ... Greece and the Peloponnesos (southern Greece) had to pass via the Isthmus.
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Data-driven simulations of synoptic circulation and transports in the ...  [1] Data from a hydrographic survey of the Tunisia-Sardinia-Sicily region are assimilated ... and dynamics, are providing new insight into the circulation of Modified Atlantic Water. (MAW) and Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) in this region of the western ... For MAW these insights include a southward jet off the east coast of.
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The Mediterranean Sea & It's Islands - worldfactsinc - Sites - Google  Facts about the Mediterranian Sea, seas of the Mediterranean Sea, islands of the ... of it's bordering countries, as well as the two island nations of Cyprus and Malta. ... Major port cities located on the Mediterranean include Marseilles in France, the ... The islands are geographically part of Africa and lie only 113 kilometers...
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Autosub Science Mission 1 - Flow over sills in the Strait of Sicily  The eastern Mediterranean Sea experiences a large net evaporation of more than 1 ... eastern and western basins of the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Sicily. ... of changes in outflow over time will give much insight into the changes of the ... an autonomous underwater vehicle: The overflow from the Strait of Sicily.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  May 3, 2011 ... ______ SEAS ______. The greatest depth of this arm of the Mediterranean is about 7,000' just north of Crete. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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Turkey - Encyclopedia of the Nations  It also has coastal borders on the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the ... (301,382 square miles), the country is slightly larger than the state of Texas.
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Ionian Sea - Wikipedia  The Ionian Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily, and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania to the north, and the west coast of Greece. All major islands in the sea belong to Greece. ... From south to north in the west, then north to south in the east:.
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Continuing evolution of the PacificJuan de FucaNorth America ...  A trenchridgetransform example from the Pacific Rim. Patricia A. .... overlying North America plate as direct relative motion between the. North America and...
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Greece - Gale  North of Corinth is the Gulf of Corinth, a body of water that forms the western ... The term colony, in the context of ancient Greece, has a meaning similar to ... The Minoans, in fact, were the first great seafaring empire, even before the Phoenicians. ... Perhaps a tidal wave, the result of a volcanic eruption or earthquake, struck...
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Geography of Greece - Wikipedia  Mainland Greece forms the southernmost part of the Balkan peninsula with two additional smaller peninsulas projecting from ... The largest mountain range of Greece is the Pindus range, the southern extension of the...
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Seas - 2 | Britannica.com  Results 1 - 76 of 76 ... Adriatic Sea arm of the Mediterranean Sea, lying between the ... It extends northeastward from Point Barrow, Alaska, toward Lands ... Pacific Ocean, separating the continents of Asia and North America. ... China Sea part of the western Pacific Ocean bordering the Asian mainland on the east-southeast.
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Greece | history - geography | Britannica.com  Sep 22, 2016 ... The entire southern portion of mainland Greece forms a peninsula lying to the south of the Gulf of Korinthiaks. Technically, this region, the...
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Greece - Encyclopedia of the Nations  Several seas surround the mainland: the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Ionian Seas. ... To the east, between mountain spurs, lie the plains of Thessaly and to the ... Greece is bounded on the west by the Ionian Sea, on the south by the...
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Where does the water of the Mediterranean Sea come from? - News ...  The Mediterranean Sea looses in this way nearly one meter of its water height ... This is why you feel a lot lighter when you swim in the Mediterranean than when ... from the Atlantic Ocean, through the Strait of Gibraltar (35 000 km3 per year).
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Mediterranean Sea - Wikipedia  The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the .... 23:31), from the people inhabiting a large portion of its shores near the Israelites. .... Northern shore (from west to east): Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, ... Several other territories also border the Mediterranean Sea (from west to...
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Atlantic Ocean - Wikipedia  The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about ... The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending .... The Atlantic has irregular coasts indented by numerous bays, gulfs, and seas. .... The eastern water is saltier because of its proximity to Mediterranean Water.