World Ocean
Earth's interconnected water system
Also known as Global Ocean · oceans of the world
- Area
- 361M km²(1980)
- Vertical depth
- 11,022 m(1980)
- Country
- none
Overview
All data
44 statements · 23% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Members / parts
- Southern Ocean(since 2000)
- Pacific Ocean opened: 1953
- Atlantic Ocean opened: 1953
- Indian Ocean opened: 1953
- Arctic Ocean opened: 1953
- Panthalassa(-900000000–-650000000) valid in period: Proterozoic
- Iapetus Ocean(-600000000–-400000000) valid in period: Precambrian, Silurian
- Tethys Ocean(-850000000–-5000000) valid in period: Mesozoic
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- Mirovia(-1100000000–-800000000) nature of statement: hypothesis · valid in period: Neoproterozoic
- Rheic Ocean valid in period: Paleozoic
- Baltic Sea sourcing circumstances: disputed
- South China and Eastern Archipelagic Seas sourcing circumstances: disputed
- Mediterranean Sea Area sourcing circumstances: disputed
- Volume as quantity
- 1.33B cubic kilometre
- 1.34B cubic kilometre(1980)
- 1.37B cubic kilometre(1974) sourcing circumstances: common
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- Temperature
- 5°C(1985) sourcing circumstances: mean
- Under pressure
- 20 MPa(1985) sourcing circumstances: mean
- Elevation
- 0 m
- PH value
- 8.1(1985)
On other databases
5 identifiers linking World Ocean across the web's reference databases