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单词 ocean basin
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Definition of ocean basin in English:

ocean basin

noun
  • A depression of the earth's surface in which an ocean lies.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Why and where additional regions of high biological activity occur farther from human eyes on ocean basin scales remains unstudied.
    • The ocean basin with the best historical record, the North Atlantic, shows the smallest increase in stronger storms.
    • These then flow from the high latitudes, circulating cool water throughout the world's ocean basins.
    • The evidence presented here shows that an ocean basin is unlikely to have existed adjacent to the Ulukisla Basin after the latest Cretaceous time.
    • In fact, the oldest sediment occurs at the far western edge of the biggest ocean basin of them all, the Pacific.
    • ‘Everywhere you go, in every ocean basin, our ‘hotspots’ today are only relics of what was once there,’ says Worm.
    • So for example, it was hypothesised 30 years ago that a whale could communicate over an ocean basin to other animals.
    • Even at those high speeds, however, a tsunami can take up to half a day to traverse an ocean basin.
    • Since 1977, many other examples of deep-sea vent ecosystems have been found in virtually every ocean basin on Earth.
    • The Arctic is an ocean basin with peripheral continents, whereas the Antarctic is continental.
    • It has been interpreted as a remnant ocean basin and as a Permian-Triassic rift basin formed at a triple junction.
    • The Beysehir-Hoyran Nappes were emplaced southwards from a Mesozoic ocean basin to the north of the Tauride carbonate platform.
    • But an Earth-like ocean basin is the hometown favorite.
    • Once an ocean basin begins to cool or warm anomalously, it generally tends to stay that way for several years and even decades.
    • They do this during long periods of complete darkness in the middle of the ocean basin where echoes take 10 to 20 minutes to return.
 
 
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