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Agulhas Passage, the Glossary

The Agulhas Passage is an abyssal channel located south of South Africa between the Agulhas Bank and Agulhas Plateau.^[1]

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23 relations: Abyssal plain, Agulhas Bank, Agulhas Basin, Agulhas Current, Agulhas Plateau, Agulhas Return Current, Antarctic bottom water, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Antarctic Intermediate Water, Atlantic Ocean, Boundary current, Continent-ocean boundary, Indian Ocean, Large igneous province, Mohorovičić discontinuity, North Atlantic Deep Water, Ocean gyre, Oceanic crust, Oligocene, Retroflect, South Africa, Sverdrup, Weddell Sea.
Landforms of the Indian Ocean

Abyssal plain

An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between.

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The Agulhas Bank (from Portuguese for Cape Agulhas, Cabo das Agulhas, "Cape of Needles") is a broad, shallow part of the southern African continental shelf which extends up to south of Cape Agulhas before falling steeply to the abyssal plain.

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Agulhas Basin

The Agulhas Basin is an oceanic basin located south of South Africa where the South Atlantic Ocean and south-western Indian Ocean meet.

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Agulhas Current

The Agulhas Current is the western boundary current of the southwest Indian Ocean.

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Agulhas Plateau

The Agulhas Plateau is an oceanic plateau located in the south-western Indian Ocean about south of South Africa.

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Agulhas Return Current

The Agulhas Return Current (ARC) is an ocean current in the South Indian Ocean.

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Antarctic bottom water

The Antarctic bottom water (AABW) is a type of water mass in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica with temperatures ranging from −0.8 to 2 °C (35 °F) and absolute salinities from 34.6 to 35.0 g/kg.

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Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica.

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Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) is a cold, relatively low salinity water mass found mostly at intermediate depths in the Southern Ocean.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Boundary current

Boundary currents are ocean currents with dynamics determined by the presence of a coastline, and fall into two distinct categories: western boundary currents and eastern boundary currents.

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Continent-ocean boundary

The continent-ocean boundary (COB) or continent-ocean transition (COT) or continent-ocean transition zone (COTZ) is the boundary between continental crust and oceanic crust on a passive margin or the zone of transition between these two crustal types.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx. Agulhas Passage and Indian Ocean are Landforms of the Indian Ocean.

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Large igneous province

A large igneous province (LIP) is an extremely large accumulation of igneous rocks, including intrusive (sills, dikes) and extrusive (lava flows, tephra deposits), arising when magma travels through the crust towards the surface.

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Mohorovičić discontinuity

The Mohorovičić discontinuityusually called the Moho discontinuity, Moho boundary, or just Mohois the boundary between the crust and the mantle of Earth.

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North Atlantic Deep Water

North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) is a deep water mass formed in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Ocean gyre

In oceanography, a gyre is any large system of circulating ocean surface currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements.

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Oceanic crust

Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agulhas_Passage