Mar Mediterrâneo (Oceanography)

Lista de mares mediterrâneos

Os mares do Mediterrâneo do Oceano Atlântico

The namesake Mediterranean Seas, including the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Aegean Sea (including the Thracian Sea and the Sea of Crete), the Adriatic Sea, the Alboran Sea, the Ligurian Sea, the Balearic Sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Sea of Marmara.The Arctic Ocean (or Arctic Mediterranean Sea, which many regard as an ocean)The American Mediterranean Sea: the combination of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.The Baltic SeaBaffin Bay

Os mares do Mediterrâneo do Oceano Índico

The Persian GulfThe Red SeaThe Australasian Mediterranean Sea (including the Banda, Sulu, Sulawesi and Java Seas)

Tipos de mares mediterrâneos

Existem dois tipos de mar mediterrâneo.

Bacia de concentração

A concentration basin has a higher salinity than the outer ocean due to evaporation, and its water exchange consists of inflow of the fresher oceanic water in the upper layer and outflow of the saltier Mediterranean water in the lower layer of the connecting channel.The Red SeaThe Persian GulfThe Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea is also a concentration basin as a whole, but the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea are dilution basins (see below) owing to the Danube, Don, and Dnieper Rivers and the Po River respectively.

Bacia de diluição

A dilution basin has a lower salinity due to freshwater gains such as rainfall and rivers, and its water exchange consists of outflow of the fresher Mediterranean water in the upper layer and inflow of the saltier oceanic water in the lower layer of the channel. Renewal of deep water may not be sufficient to supply oxygen to the bottom.The Arctic OceanThe American Mediterranean SeaThe Baltic SeaBaffin BayThe Black SeaThe Australasian Mediterranean Sea

Exceções

The Hudson Bay is so shallow it functions like a huge estuary.Having shallow channels and deep basins, the Sea of Japan could form a Mediterranean sea, but the strong currents from the Pacific prevent it from having an independent water circulation.The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea, alleged to be the largest body of brackish water in the world (other possibilities include the Black Sea).[inconsistent][clarification needed] It occupies a basin formed by glacial erosion.

Veja também

Inland sea (geology)Marginal sea