An undersea sill from Tunisia to Sicily splits this sea into eastern & western basins
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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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Sicily Channel/Tunisian Plateau: Topography, circulation ... - Rac spa  May 29, 2015 ... garbens, the Eastern Sill system (Malta plateau and Medina Bank) connects ... onto the Sicily channel the MAW splits into two main branches ... the eastern and western Mediterranean sub-basins. .... The Empedocle seamount is a large underwater relief, rising on the deep sea floor from 250 m to about 500.
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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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MSFD-InitialAssessment-PhysicalFeatures - ERA  between the eastern and the western Mediterranean sub-basins and also ... into the deep Ionian Sea with a very sharp escarpment (known as the Malta ... The numbers indicate Pantelleria Island (1), Maltese Islands (2), Sicily (3), Tunisia (4) and Calabria (5) .... The LIW enters the Sicily Channel through the Medina sill to the.
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Water masses and circulation between the eastern Algerian Basin ...  eastern Algerian Basin the flow direction of all water masses is eastward close to the ... Sicily and Tunisia, and extends into the western Algerian ... cooling of MAW during winter in the Ligurian Sea and ... gion, LIW spreads westward and spills over the sills of ..... flow splitting at 11E. When impinging on the west coast.
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New Evidence from Egypt on the Location of the Exodus Sea ...  Aug 19, 2008 ... The Red Sea's eastern branch is known as the Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic) or Gulf of ... to the Gulf of Aqaba was a natural extension (Hoffmeier 1997: 206). .... If the Gulf of Suez is chosen as the Exodus crossing site, the location...
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Sicily - Wikipedia  Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It constitutes an autonomous Region of Italy, along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as Regione Siciliana (in Italian, Sicilian Region) . Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian .... This makes it by far the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy, being...
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Aegean Sea | Mediterranean Sea | Britannica.com  An arm of the Mediterranean Sea, located between the Greek peninsula on the ... to Boeotia by a bridge at Chalcs); (5) the Saronic Islands west of the Cyclades, ... (6) the Dodecanese, a group of 13 islands transferred to Greece by Italy after...
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Caribbean Sea - Wikipedia  The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western .... The Caribbean Sea is separated from the ocean by several island arcs of ... The Caribbean sea floor is divided into five basins separated from each other by ... The Yucatn Channel between Mexico and Cuba links the Gulf of Mexico...
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Adriatic Sea - Wikipedia  The Adriatic Sea /edritk/ is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula and the Apennine Mountains from the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending .... It is the largest Mediterranean shelf and is simultaneously a dilution basin...
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Ionian Sea | sea, Mediterranean Sea | Britannica.com  Part of the Mediterranean Sea, lying between Greece (east), Sicily (southwest), and ... In the Ionian Sea, south of Greece, the Mediterranean reaches its greatest depth (16,000 feet [4,900 m]). ... The Ionian Islands lie off the western coast of Greece. ... The continent is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north.
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Jeopary Question, BODIES OF WATER - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: BODIES OF WATER - This sea is divided into several basins, including Yucatan, Colombian, Venezuelan & Tobago.
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Cayman Trough - Wikipedia  The Cayman Trough is a complex transform fault zone pull-apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea...
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Tables 1.1 and 1.2 - University of Hawaii at Manoa  The Indian ocean basin has Eurasia as its northern boundary and Africa as its western boundary ... is divided from the Atlantic ocean basin by a line drawn from Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa, to the Antarctic continent and from the Pacific ocean basin by ... Eurasia is separated from Africa by the Suez Canal.
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Geography of Tunisia - Wikipedia  Tunisia is a country in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, having a western .... Tunisia, like other North African countries, has lost much of its prehistoric biodiversity due to the ongoing ... Westernmost point - Village of Hizwa on the border with Algeria due west of Nefta, Tozeur Governorate; *Note: this is also...
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J! Archive - Show #1605, aired 1991-07-19  The Italian part of this coastal resort area runs from the French border to Tuscany ... To reach the island of Sicily from the "toe" of Italy, cross this narrow strait...
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Red Sea | sea, Middle East | Britannica.com  Geologically, the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba (Elat) must be considered as the ... At its northern end the Red Sea splits into two parts, the Gulf of Suez to the...
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Adriatic Sea - Credo Reference  Large arm of the Mediterranean Sea, lying northwest to southeast between the ... is Italian; the eastern includes Croatia, Montenegro, and Albania, with two small strips ... The Strait of Otranto, between Italy and Albania, links the Adriatic with the ... Shallow arm of the Mediterranean Sea, separated from the Ionian Sea by the...
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Gulf of Aqaba - Wikipedia  The Gulf of Aqaba or Gulf of Eilat is a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian mainland. Its coastline is divided between four countries: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and ... It reaches a maximum depth of 1,850 m in its central area: the Gulf of Suez is significantly wider but less...
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Adriatic Sea | sea, Mediterranean Sea | Britannica.com  Aug 19, 2016 ... Arm of the Mediterranean Sea, lying between the Italian and Balkan peninsulas. ... Bosnian, Croatian, and Montenegrin Jadransko More, Albanian Deti i .... The Adriatic Sea separates Italy from the Balkan Peninsula of Eastern...
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Indian Ocean - Wikipedia  The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 ... Palk Strait connecting Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal; Persian Gulf ... for the second largest share of the most economically valuable tuna catch. Its ... pottery have been found in the western Gulf at Dilmun, present-day Bahrain;...