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    The Persian Gulf Basin (Persian: آبخیز خلیج فارس, Arabic: حوض الخليج العربي) is found between the Eurasian and the Arabian Plate. The Persian Gulf is described...
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    been damaged by industrialization and oil spills. The Persian Gulf is in the Persian Gulf Basin, which is of Cenozoic origin and related to the subduction...
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    The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent...
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    Greco-Persian wars. The Megara Gulf makes up the northern end of the Saronic Gulf. The Athens urban area lies on the north coast of the Saronic Gulf. The...
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  • The Persian Gulf The Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea is also a concentration basin as a whole, but the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea are dilution basins (see...
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    drainage basin also comprises about 13% of Earth's land. It drains the eastern coast of Africa, the coasts of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Indian...
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    system is a large river system in Western Asia that discharges into the Persian Gulf. Its principal rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, along with smaller...
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  • and plans, this water basin is known as the "Persian Gulf". The 10th day of Ordibehesht has been designated as the Persian Gulf National Day to commemorate...
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  • Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean basin extending into southern North America Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea Persian Gulf, arm of the Indian Ocean in Western...
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    The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman (Arabic: خليج عمان khalīj ʿumān; Persian: دریای عمان daryâ-ye omân), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran (Arabic:...
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    Peninsula is the smaller Gulf of Aqaba. The gulf was formed within a relatively young but now inactive Gulf of Suez Rift rift basin, dating back about 26...
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    are three major basins contained within the Gulf of Maine: Wilkinson Basin to the west, Jordan Basin in the northeast, and Georges Basin in the south, which...
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    It is generally identified with the Great Gulf (Latin: Magnus Sinus) known to Greek, Roman, Arab, Persian, and Renaissance cartographers before the influx...
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  • near Tang-e Haft railway station, the Tigris River drainage, the Persian Gulf Basin, Lorestan Province, southwestern Iran. The species name lorestanensis...
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    the Gulf of Aqaba to its east. Geologically, the gulf forms the southern end of the Dead Sea Transform. It contains three small pull-apart basins, the...
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    An endorheic basin (/ˌɛndoʊˈriː.ɪk/ EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows...
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    Territory Earth award. The Gulf is one of the distinct physiographic sections of the larger (and surrounding) Carpentaria Basin province, which in turn is...
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    American Mediterranean Sea (category South American drainage basins of the Atlantic Ocean)
    a scientific name for the mediterranean dilution basin which includes the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.: 15, 35, 637–643  The name, which has...
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    Bab-el-Mandeb, and the Gulf of Oman is in the northwest, connecting it to the Persian Gulf. The Arabian Sea's surface area is about 3,862,000 km2 (1,491,130 sq mi)...
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    000 km2 Persian Gulf – 251,000 km2 Flores Sea – 240,000 km2 Gulf of St. Lawrence – 226,000 km2 Bay of Biscay – 223,000 km2 Aegean Sea – 214,000 km2 Gulf of...
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  • Jörg. (2016). "Oxynoemacheilus karunensis, a new species from the Persian Gulf basin (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)". Zootaxa. 4175 (1): 94–100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
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  • lies on a tip of the bay. Following the post-glacial flooding of the Persian Gulf basin, debris from the Tigris–Euphrates river formed a substantial delta...
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    metres (24 and 98,304 billion cubic feet) . Ghawar Field Arabian or Persian Gulf Basin General geology Geology of Saudi Arabia Geology of Oman Geology of...
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    (/hɔːrˈmuːz/ Persian: تنگهٔ هُرمُز Tangeh-ye Hormoz listen, Arabic: مَضيق هُرمُز Maḍīq Hurmuz) is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman....
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  • History of Kuwait (category Persian Gulf)
    Gulf War (1990–1991). Following the post-glacial flooding of the Persian Gulf basin, debris from the Tigris–Euphrates river formed a substantial delta...
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    a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe...
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    of the Persian Gulf and onshore in Iran, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, and Oman. The thicker salt is found in a series of basins: the Western Gulf, the Southern...
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    Bohai Sea (redirect from Bohai Gulf)
    The Bohai Sea (Chinese: 渤海; pinyin: Bó Hǎi; lit. 'Bo Sea') is a gulf/inland sea approximately 77,000 km2 (30,000 sq mi) in area on the east coast of Mainland...
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    than 8,000 metres thick Persian Gulf Foreland to the west of the Zagros mountains Underfilled stage Terrestrial part of the basin covers parts of Iraq and...
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    The Gulf of Bothnia (/ˈbɒθniə/; Finnish: Pohjanlahti; Swedish: Bottniska viken) is divided into the Bothnian Bay and Bothnian Sea, and it is the northernmost...
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