- See also: Sandbank
A bank is a comparatively shallow area or an underwater hill on the continental shelf. A shoal or sandbar (also called sandbank) is a somewhat Linear Landform within or extending into a body of Water, The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each Continent and associated Coastal plain, which is covered during interglacial periods such It may be of volcanic nature. Plate tectonics and hotspots Divergent plate boundaries At the Seamounts, by contrast, rise from the deep sea, and are steeper, and higher in comparison to the surrounding seabed. A seamount is a Mountain rising from the Ocean Seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface ( Sea level) and thus is not an Island The deep sea, or deep layer, is the lowest layer in the Ocean, existing below the Thermocline, at a depth of 1000 fathoms or more "Ocean Floor" redirects here For the 2001 song by Audio Adrenaline, see Lift (Audio Adrenaline album.
Examples are Cordell Bank, northwest of the Farallon Islands, which has a least depth of 35 meters, and Schmieder Bank. The Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary is one of the United States' 13 National Marine Sanctuaries that protect and preserve ocean ecosystems in the U The Farallon Islands, or Farallones, are a group of Islands and rocks found in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, Schmieder Bank is a rocky bank west of Point Sur, roughly south of Monterey California, supporting an extraordinarily lush biological community In other cases, parts of a bank may reach above the water surface, thereby forming islands, as in the case of Pedro Bank. An island (ˈaɪlənd or isle (/ˈaɪl/ is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water in two dimensions above high tide and isolated from other significant Pedro Bank is a large bank of Sand and Coral, partially covered with Seagrass, about 80 km south and southwest of Jamaica, rising steeply from
The largest banks in the world are:
- Great Bahamas Bank (95,798. 12 km², has islands, area without islands)
- Saya de Malha (35,000 km², excluding the separate North bank, least depth 7 m)
- Seychelles Bank (31,000 km², including islands of 266 km²)
- Lansdowne Bank (21,000 km², west of New Caledonia, least depth 3. The Saya de Malha Bank (also Sahia de Malha Bank Modern Portuguese saia de malha, English mesh skirt) is a large submerged bank in the Indian Lansdowne Bank, sometimes called Landsdowne Bank, is an extensive submerged bank located between the main island of New Caledonia and the Chesterfield For the former North American fur-trading district see New Caledonia (Canada, and for the Scottish colony in Panama see Darien scheme. 7 m) [1]
- Dogger Bank (17,600 km², least depth 13 m)
- Little Bahamas Bank (14,260. Dogger Bank (from dogge, an old Dutch word for fishing boat is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 km off the coast 64 km², has islands, area without islands)
- Great Chagos Bank (12,642 km², including islands of 4. The Great Chagos Bank, in the Chagos Archipelago, about 500 km South of the Maldives, is the largest Atoll structure in the world with a total area of 5 km²)
- Reed Bank, Spratly Islands (8,866 km², least depth 9 m)
- Caicos Bank, Caicos Islands (7,680 km², including islands of 589. The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 100 reefs islets and islands occupying in total less than five square kilometres and spread over more than 400000 square kilometres The Turks and Caicos Islands ( TCI) (ˈtɜːks ænd ˈkeɪkəs are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies 5 km²)
- Macclesfield Bank (6,448 km², least depth 9. Macclesfield Bank or Zhongsha Islands ( Chinese 中沙群島 Pinyin: Zhongsha Qundao Vietnamese: Quần đảo Trung Sa, literally 2 m)
- North Bank or Ritchie Bank (5,800 km², north of Saya de Malha, least depth <10 m)
- Cay Sal Bank (5,226. The Saya de Malha Bank (also Sahia de Malha Bank Modern Portuguese saia de malha, English mesh skirt) is a large submerged bank in the Indian Cay Sal Bank is the third largest (after Great Bahama Bank and Little Bahama Bank) and the westernmost of the Bahama Banks. 73 km², including islands of 14,87 km²)
- Rosalind Bank (4,500 km², lest depth 7. Rosalind Bank, also called Rosalinda or Rosa Linda Bank is a large completely submerged Atoll that lies with its southern extremity 269 km ENE of Cabo Gracias 3 m)
Some of these banks may be sunken atolls. An atoll (pronounced /ˈætʌl/ is an island of Coral that encircles a Lagoon partially or completely Continental shelf areas like the Grand Banks are not considered banks in this context. The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each Continent and associated Coastal plain, which is covered during interglacial periods such
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