Ocean Facts

Answers to your questions about our oceans and coasts.

Geology:

What is LIDAR?

What is a datum?

What is the geoid?

What is the difference between weather and climate?

What is VDatum?

What is a seamount?

What do geodesists do?

Is sea level the same all across the ocean?

What is the National Spatial Reference System?

What is geodesy?

What is a turbidity current?

What is a guyot?

What is the global ocean conveyor belt?

How is sea level rise related to climate change?

What is upwelling?

What is a hydrothermal vent?

Do volcanoes occur in the ocean?

What role does the ocean play in the weather?

Is sea level rising?

What is the longest mountain range on earth?

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