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A Rip Current On the Shore
Not all currents occur at such a large scale. Individual beaches may have rip...
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The Salt Pans
The Mediterranean is super salty due to intense evaporation. Here, locals in...
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The Ekman Spiral
As wind blows over the surface layer of water, friction between the two pulls the...
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Surface Currents
This is a map ocean surface currents from 1877. ...
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Thermohaline Circulation Map
Differences in temperature and salinity drive deep ocean currents. ...
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Wind Patterns Drive Currents
The major wind patterns drive oceanic currents. ...
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Visualizing Currents
Currents on the ocean surface are driven by wind, temperature, gravity, and the...
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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History
400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones...
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a New Fossil Whale
Monodontids, the group of whales that includes living belugas and narwhals, are...
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Dugong Feeding
Dugongs, along with manatees, make up a group of marine mammals called sirenians or...
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Exploring Chile's Marine Fossil Record in the Atacama Desert
Smithsonian curator of fossil marine mammals Nick Pyenson and a team of...
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