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Sargasso Sea
Sargasso Sea
Sargasso Sea The calm centre of the anticyclonic
gyre in the North Atlantic, comprising a large eddy of surface water, the boundaries of which are demarcated by major current systems such as the
Gulf Stream,
Canaries Current, and
North Atlantic Drift. The Sargasso Sea is a large, warm (18°C), saline (36.5–37.0 parts per thousand) lens of water, which is characterized by an abundance of floating brown seaweed (Sargassum).
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Sargasso Sea: Where The Eels Meet
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/9/1996; ; 661 words
; ...mysterious Sar-gasso Sea has befuddled sailors...Jules Verne wrote of the Sargasso: "{T}runks of trees...ocean...." But the Sargasso is not nearly as daunting...of cold, dense deep-sea water laden with nutrients...spawn and die. From the Sargasso, their tiny larvae commence...
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THE WILD SIDE: ; Eels migrate to Sargasso Sea
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 9/13/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...and South America to the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic...memories of the Sargasso Sea call them home, eels...somehow return to the Sargasso Sea. Exactly how eels find their way back to the Sargasso Sea is unknown. They...
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Navigating the 'Wide Sargasso Sea': colonial history, English fiction, and British empire. (novel by author Jean Rhys)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 102 In a twentieth...of Wide Sargasso Sea consequently explores...characterize Wide Sargasso Sea reenact the struggles...for the novel, "Sargasso Sea (The Wide...impossible task in Wide Sargasso Sea is to negotiate...
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SENSUAL 'SARGASSO SEA' BEST TAKEN WITHOUT WORDS.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/27/1993; 700+ words
; ...from the sexual humidity in "Wide Sargasso Sea," so sensual are the tropical...despite its visual eloquence, "Sargasso" is an intelligent movie without...faithfully based need to know that "Sargasso" is what we moderns would call...
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IBEA Researchers Publish Results From Environmental Shotgun Sequencing of Sargasso Sea in Science; Discover 1,800 New Species and 1.2 Million New Genes, Including Nearly 800 New Photoreceptor Genes; IBEA Announces Sorcerer II Expedition, Global Expedition to Sample World's Oceans and Land to Characterize and Understand Microbial Populations Using Environmental DNA Sequencing.
PR Newswire; 3/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...samples taken from the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda. Using the...million new genes from the Sargasso Sea. This work was funded...identified in the Sargasso Sea. As well, there were...public databases. The Sargasso Sea was chosen as a pilot...
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`Wide Sargasso Sea': Lush with sexual and colonial politics
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/14/1993; ; 700+ words
; WIDE SARGASSO SEA Directed by: John Duigan Screenplay...scenes) Entrapment is the star of "Wide Sargasso Sea," John Duigan's film of Jean...sexual and colonial politics in "Wide Sargasso Sea." The film is as lush with them...
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Between and beyond boundaries in 'Wide Sargasso Sea.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 2/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...abound in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. As Judith Moore has pointed out...oppositional overlap has in Wide Sargasso Sea. Instead, she focuses on...British imperialism.(1) Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of Bertha Mason...
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WIDE SARGASSO SEA By Jean Rhys
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/25/2008; ; 669 words
; BOOK OF A LIFETIME Wide Sargasso Sea is not just a great novel, it is...deep tragedy. I first read Wide Sargasso Sea before coming to Jane Eyre...magical Jamaican scenery, Wide Sargasso Sea depicts the trouble and confusion...
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CHANGES IN OCEAN CONDITIONS IN SARGASSO SEA POTENTIAL CAUSE FOR DECLINE IN EEL FISHERY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/6/2008; 700+ words
; ...low productivity waters of the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda," NOAA biologist...spawn in the open ocean in the Sargasso Sea, in an area between the Bahamas...But before they go back to the Sargasso Sea, they undergo another physical...
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Picoeukaryotic sequences in the Sargasso Sea metagenome.(Research)
Magazine article from: Genome Biology (Online Edition); 1/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...random sequencing of filtered sea water [12], is better characterized...samples collected from the Sargasso Sea, filtered through a pore...years ago with samples from the Sargasso Sea [12]. The experimental...This is indeed the case in the Sargasso Sea samples, where 34 18S...
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Sargasso Sea
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
Sargasso Sea The calm centre of the anticyclonic gyre in the North Atlantic, comprising...as the Gulf Stream , Canaries Current , and North Atlantic Drift . The Sargasso Sea is a large, warm (18°C), saline (36.5–37...
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sargasso weed
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...to the seabed in shallow water. Sargasso weed is the exception in that it...tropical oceans, particularly in the Sargasso Sea where it gathers in large accumulations...along slicks and windrows . The Sargasso Sea, the area of the North Atlantic...
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sargasso
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
sargasso seaweed found floating in the Gulf Stream and esp. in the S. Sea (bounded by the Azores, the Canaries, and the Cape Verde islands). XVI. — Pg. sargaço , of unkn. orig.
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seas
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
seas. In the ancient world traditionally there were seven seas—the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Persian...However, others, like the Sargasso and the Arabian Seas, are...See also high seas ; narrow seas ; oceans ; united nations conference on the law of the sea . ...
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True Eels
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...species of eel runs to the sea and migrates to a warm...Bermuda that is known as the Sargasso Sea. European eels also commonly spawn in the Sargasso Sea, following a migration...larvae were observed, in the Sargasso Sea. Freshwater eels are...
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