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Physical oceanography
Physical oceanography is the study of the physical processes affecting and being driven by the Earth's oceans, including:
- ocean currents, including:
- wind-driven surface currents [see ]
- geostrophic currents [see ]
- Thermohaline circulation
- Water masses [see also ]
- Tides [see also Tidal resonance, ]
- stability of the water column [see ]
- mixing and turbulence [see ]
- physical features and processes on the ocean floor: oceanic trench, continental slope, continental shelf, abyssal plain, oceanic ridge, black smokers, hydrothermal circulation, seamount, atoll, and others.
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