The Agulhas Basin and some of the bathymetric structures mentioned in the text
The Agulhas Basin is an oceanic basin located south of South Africa where the South Atlantic Ocean and south-western Indian Ocean meet. Part of the African Plate, it is bounded by the Agulhas Ridge (part of the Agulhas-Falkland Fracture Zone) to the north and the Southwest Indian Ridge to the south; by the Meteor Rise to the west and the Agulhas Plateau to the east. Numerous bathymetric anomalies hint at the basin's dynamic tectonic history.[1]
of the formation of the AgulhasBasin. The Agulhas Ridge extends from the northern tip of the Meteor Rise towards the Agulhas Bank south of South Africa...
Madagascar (35 Sv). The net transport of the Agulhas Current is estimated as 100 Sv. The flow of the Agulhas Current is directed by the topography. The...
between the Agulhas Bank (south of South Africa) and the Agulhas passage (south of the bank), typical for a continent-ocean transition. The Agulhas Passage...
The Agulhas Bank (/əˈɡʌləs/, from Portuguese for Cape Agulhas, Cabo das Agulhas, "Cape of Needles") is a broad, shallow part of the southern African continental...
Current. The Agulhas Current follows the continental shelf of the African east-coast, pass through the Agulhas Passage until it leaves the Agulhas Bank and...
one south of the equator moving anticlockwise (including the Agulhas Current and Agulhas Return Current), constitute the dominant flow pattern. During...
The Agulhas Passage is an abyssal channel located south of South Africa between the Agulhas Bank and Agulhas Plateau. About 50 km (31 mi) wide, it connects...
into the Indian Ocean. The 20° East meridian, running south from Cape Agulhas to Antarctica defines its border. In the 1953 definition it extends south...
the AgulhasBasin and then east through the Agulhas Passage and over the southern margins of the Agulhas Plateau and then into the Mozambique Basin. Climate...
continental shelves. These fracture zones, and their extensions into the AgulhasBasin, are flow-lines describing the motion of Africa and Antarctica since...
and mass extinction in the ocean basins. Campbell Plateau (South Pacific) Challenger Plateau (South Pacific) Agulhas Plateau (Southwest Indian) Caribbean–Colombian...
The process occurs during the retroflection of the Agulhas Current via shedding of anticyclonic Agulhas Rings, cyclonic eddies and direct inflow. The leakage...
Indian Ocean Agulhas Current – Western boundary current of the southwest Indian Ocean that flows down the east coast of Africa Agulhas Return Current –...
Trenchia agulhasae argentinae (Clarke, 1961) This species was found in the AgulhasBasin. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Trenchia agulhasae (Clarke...
Hyphessobrycon agulha (also known as the red-tailed flag tetra) is a species of tetra in the family Characidae. As a freshwater fish, it inhabits the basin of the...
which are influenced by the warm Agulhas Current. The Cape of Good Hope is the boundary between the Benguela and Agulhas provinces. Amsterdam and St. Paul...
ISBN 0-520-24209-2. Gohl, K.; Uenzelmann-Neben, G. (2001). "The crustal role of the Agulhas Plateau, southwest Indian Ocean: evidence for seismic profiling" (PDF)...
seaway across the southern and eastern parts of the country, called the Agulhas Sea. The sea floor consisted of the Klipheuwel Group in the west, the Natal...
1867) (In Agulhas current and off west coast in Agulhas water pockets) Short-headed lantern fish, Diaphus brachycephalus Tåning, 1928 (In Agulhas current...
Siberian traps are underlain by the Tungus Syneclise, a large sedimentary basin containing thick sequences of Early-Mid Paleozoic aged carbonate and evaporite...
inshore Agulhas marine ecoregion which extends from Cape Point to the Mbashe river over the continental shelf, in the overlap zone between Cape Agulhas and...
the Black Needles peak (Pico das Agulhas Negras). The higher part of the park contains the origins of 12 river basins that supply the Rio Grande (Grand...
without any rings occur. The Agulhas rings transport warm and salty water to the Southern Atlantic Ocean. The water from the Agulhas rings can be up to 5 °C...
to the International Hydrographic Organization, officially meet at Cape Agulhas, the most southern point of Africa. Its territory includes Marion and Prince...
Water (AABW) enters the Cape Basin between the Agulhas Bank and the Agulhas Ridge after which it flows west north of the Agulhas Ridge. AABW then retroflects...
of ocean basins due to western intensification. They carry warm water from the tropics poleward. Examples include the Gulf Stream, the Agulhas Current...
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