The Ring of Fire isn’t a literal ring you can see, but a band of more than 450 volcanoes that wraps around the Pacific Ocean like a blazing necklace.

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

Stanford sea turtle study uncovers new effects of global warming in the Pacific Ocean. By Spencer Christian ... Measurements suggest the nutrient-rich band is now 1.6 degrees Celsius warmer than ...

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