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Gulf of Mexico and Orca Basin

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Difference between Gulf of Mexico and Orca Basin

Gulf of Mexico vs. Orca Basin

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. The Orca Basin is a mid-slope, silled, mini-basin in the northern Gulf of Mexico some 300 km southwest of the Mississippi River mouth on the Louisiana continental slope.

Similarities between Gulf of Mexico and Orca Basin

Gulf of Mexico and Orca Basin have 8 things in common (in Unionpedia): Brine pool, Hypoxia (environmental), Jurassic, Louann Salt, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Mississippi River Delta, North America.

Brine pool

A brine pool is a large area of brine on the ocean basin.

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Hypoxia (environmental)

Hypoxia refers to low oxygen conditions.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Louann Salt

The Louann Salt is a widespread evaporite formation that formed in the Gulf of Mexico during the Callovian in the mid Jurassic.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Mississippi River Delta

The Mississippi River Delta region is a 3-million-acre (12,000 km2) area of land that stretches from Vermilion Bay on the west, to the Chandeleur Islands in the Gulf of Mexico on the southeastern coast of Louisiana.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Gulf of Mexico and Orca Basin Comparison

Gulf of Mexico has 242 relations, while Orca Basin has 34. As they have in common 8, the Jaccard index is 2.90% = 8 / (242 + 34).

References

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