SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Gulf of California
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Gulf of Aden
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Gulf of Mexico
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Gulf of Mexico basin appears to have formed 200 million years ago as the result of rifting within North America as the supercontinent known as Pangea began to break up. Rifting and the accompanying formation of “stretched” or “transitional” continental crust took several tens of millions of years.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by five states of the United States on the northern and the eastern border, five Mexican states on its western and southern border, and Cuba to the southeast (Fig. 18.1).