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    of the formation of the Agulhas Basin. The Agulhas Ridge extends from the northern tip of the Meteor Rise towards the Agulhas Bank south of South Africa...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    one south of the equator moving anticlockwise (including the Agulhas Current and Agulhas Return Current), constitute the dominant flow pattern. During...
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    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...
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    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...
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    continental shelves. These fracture zones, and their extensions into the Agulhas Basin, are flow-lines describing the motion of Africa and Antarctica since...
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    the Agulhas Basin and then east through the Agulhas Passage and over the southern margins of the Agulhas Plateau and then into the Mozambique Basin. Climate...
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    and mass extinction in the ocean basins. Campbell Plateau (South Pacific) Challenger Plateau (South Pacific) Agulhas Plateau (Southwest Indian) Caribbean–Colombian...
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    Northernmost Point — Cape Chelyuskin, Russia Southernmost Point — Cape Agulhas, South Africa Westernmost Point — Pointe des Almadies, Senegal Easternmost...
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  • Trenchia agulhasae argentinae (Clarke, 1961) This species was found in the Agulhas Basin. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Trenchia agulhasae (Clarke...
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  • The process occurs during the retroflection of the Agulhas Current via shedding of anticyclonic Agulhas Rings, cyclonic eddies and direct inflow. The leakage...
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    Indian Ocean Agulhas Current – Western boundary current of the southwest Indian Ocean that flows down the east coast of Africa Agulhas Return Current –...
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    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...
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    Karoo Supergroup (redirect from Karoo Basin)
    Jurassic. These accumulated in a retroarc foreland basin called the "main Karoo" Basin. This basin was formed by the subduction and orogenesis along the...
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    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...
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    "rhinoceros field"). Fynbos vegetation types, code FF: Agulhas Limestone Fynbos (FFl 1) Agulhas Sand Fynbos (FFd 7) Albertinia Sand Fynbos (FFd 9) Algoa...
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    1867) (In Agulhas current and off west coast in Agulhas water pockets) Short-headed lantern fish, Diaphus brachycephalus Tåning, 1928 (In Agulhas current...
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    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...
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    Siberian traps are underlain by the Tungus Syneclise, a large sedimentary basin containing thick sequences of Early-Mid Paleozoic aged carbonate and evaporite...
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    Falkland Plateau separated from the Agulhas Bank, opening the South Atlantic which, however, remained an enclosed basin north of the Falkland Plateau until...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia, at 37°21′ N, to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas in South Africa, 34°51′15″ S, is a distance approximately of 8,000 km (5...
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    ridge was confirmed by sonar in 1925 and was found to extend around Cape Agulhas into the Indian Ocean by the German Meteor expedition. In the 1950s, mapping...
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    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...
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    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...
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    to the International Hydrographic Organization, officially meet at Cape Agulhas, the most southern point of Africa. Its territory includes Marion and Prince...
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