Nations around the world, including the United States, officially recognise five major ocean basins. They Include: Together, ...

of sediments from the Pacific Ocean and also contains extensive material from the other major ocean basins. The core collection contains cores that were collected using gravity, piston, trigger, vibra ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans ... contains deep (~ 4500m) basins, the slowest spreading ridges in the world, and about 15% of the world's shelf ...

Particularly, the currents flowing along the western boundaries of the major ocean basins, known as the western boundary currents (WBCs), attract much attention, as they are more powerful ...