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    The ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface and is comprised of five main oceans: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic oceans. The Pacific is the largest ocean, while the Arctic is the smallest. Oceans were formed around 4 billion years ago through two main processes: volcanic eruptions releasing water vapor that condensed into rain and accumulated in low-lying areas, and through impacts from comets that deposited water on the early Earth. Today, 97% of the Earth's water is contained within oceans.

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    The ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface and is comprised of five main oceans: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic oceans. The Pacific is the largest ocean, while the Arctic is the smallest. Oceans were formed around 4 billion years ago through two main processes: volcanic eruptions releasing water vapor that condensed into rain and accumulated in low-lying areas, and through impacts from comets that deposited water on the early Earth. Today, 97% of the Earth's water is contained within oceans.

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    The ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface and is comprised of five main oceans: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic oceans. The Pacific is the largest ocean, while the Arctic is the smallest. Oceans were formed around 4 billion years ago through two main processes: volcanic eruptions releasing water vapor that condensed into rain and accumulated in low-lying areas, and through impacts from comets that deposited water on the early Earth. Today, 97% of the Earth's water is contained within oceans.

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    FORMATION OF OCEAN

    GROUP 5: YANA, SILAO, ALFONSO, CABANDAY, GENON


    OCEAN
    The ocean is a huge body of saltwater that covers about 71 percent of
    Earth's surface. While Land covers 29% of the earth.

    A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into
    which the sea is divided geographically.

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    Water and land on earth:

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    PERCENTAGE OF WATER ON THE EARTH
    Atmosphere: 0.001%
    Surface water: 0.03%
    Groundwater: 0.90%
    Glacial ice: 2.06%
    Ocean water: 97%

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    The Earth Comprises five oceans:

    PACIFIC OCEAN- 168,723,000 square kilometers, the Pacific is the world’s largest
    ocean.
    ATLANTIC OCEAN- measures approximately
    85,133,000 square kilometers. It is the second
    largest ocean

    in the world.
    INDIAN OCEAN- At 70,560,000 square kilometers,
    the Indian Ocean comes in third.

    SOUTHERN OCEAN- approximately 21,960,000 square kilometers. Making up 6.1 percent of


    the global ocean, it is significantly smaller than the three oceans.


    ARCTIC OCEAN- The Arctic is the smallest of all five oceans. Stretching 15,558,000 square

    kilometers.

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    HOW THE OCEAN FORM?

    VOLCANIC ERUPTION (VOLCANISM)

    COMETS

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    VOLCANIC ERUPTION
    Earth was formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. And oceans
    were formed 4 billion years ago.
    When the earth was formed, it was a hot molten rock.
    When the volcanic eruption took place, one of the gasses that came out of
    the earth’s core was steam which is also known as water vapor.
    when the earth slowly cooled, and when the liquid water contact with hot crust the
    steam or water vapor into clouds, condensed, precipitates or in the form of torrential
    rains and continued to fall for thousands of years, then the water started
    accumulating at the lower areas of earth’s ground or crater and land depressions,
    and that were the ocean created.

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    VOLCANIC ERUPTION

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    COMETS

    Scientists believed that some water came from outer space through comets which
    filled with water.

    Comets are huge chunks of ice and dust that were left after the formation of
    stars and other planets.

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    COMETS

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II


    References

    Afra Javaid. Jagran Josh. (2021). Explained: How oceans were formed?

    Elizabeth Landau. NASA Headquarters, Washington. (2019). Comet


    Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth’s Oceans.

    GEOL101: PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY II

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