Hello everyone! Today is the twenty-fifth day of the Waxing Moon, Xiaobian is here today to say goodbye to you in the early years, today's issue of the Earth's Ocean series column, we take a look at the Mediterranean part of the Atlantic Sea in the European region.
The Mediterranean Sea is located between the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and Turkey and Greece at the junction of Eurasia are called the White Sea in order to distinguish them from the Black Sea sea, and China's ancient historical records also record that it is called the Western Great Food Sea.
The Mediterranean Sea is about 4,000 kilometers long from east to west, more than 1,800 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of about 2.51 million square kilometers, making it the largest intercontinental sea area in the world. The western part of the Mediterranean Sea leads to the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar, the northeast part connects the Black Sea sea area with the Turkish Strait, and the southeast sea passes through the Suez Canal out of the Red Sea sea, which is an important sea traffic artery connecting the Indian Ocean sea area, and is known as an important strategic transportation hub in the maritime area.
The central Mediterranean sea is bounded by the Strait of Tunis between the Apennine Peninsula, Sicily and Tunisia, and the Mediterranean Sea is divided into two parts: the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Mediterranean. The average depth of the Mediterranean sea is 1450 meters, and the deepest depth of the sea is about 5267 meters, of which the deepest sea area of the Mediterranean Sea recorded in science is the Ionian Basin region in southern Greece.
The Mediterranean Sea is the oldest marine sea in the world's geological history, and the history of crustal movement and ocean evolution is older than that of the Atlantic Ocean. Among them, the Atlantic Ocean attached to the Mediterranean Sea is a young ocean, and in the ancient Earth period, the Ancient Mediterranean Sea was a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, and later after a long series of continental drifts and the evolution of the earth's crust movement, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean geological evolution developed to be connected only by a narrow Strait of Gibraltar.
The Mediterranean sea is located at the junction of the Eurasian plate and the African continental plate, and is one of the strongest seismic belts and volcanic belts in the world, and the Mediterranean region has the world's famous Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna.
The climate of the Mediterranean sea is mainly the coastal areas in the summer is relatively dry and hot, and the winter is warmer and humid, which is called the Mediterranean climate. The vegetation in the sea area of this area is relatively hard leafy, waxy on the leaf surface, and the vegetation has deep roots, which has the characteristics of drought tolerance adapted to the dry and hot climate in summer, and belongs to the subtropical evergreen sclerophyll forest area.
The Mediterranean Sea is the world's largest intercontinental sea, with warm and rainy winters, hot and dry summers, relatively high sea temperatures, and the evaporation of seawater is also very strong. Due to the geographical environment of the Mediterranean sea area, which is almost all land, the sea water cannot circulate, and the mixture of oxygen and nutrients on which the organisms in the ocean depend for their survival is blocked out, which is the main reason why the organisms in the Mediterranean sea are rarer than those in other areas close to the continental sea.
The coastline of the Mediterranean sea is winding and winding, and there are many islands, the large islands are located in the Mediterranean Sea, such as Mahoca, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Ross, of which Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean sea is a holiday destination for tourists in the world, while the Aegean sea area, located in the eastern sea area, is not only the cradle of European civilization in the Western world, but also the birthplace of democracy in the modern world.
The Aegean Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea, located between the Greek Peninsula and the Peninsula of Asia Minor, with a length of about 610 kilometers from north to south and a width of about 300 kilometers from east to west. The northeastern part of the Aegean Sea is connected to the Marmara Sea via Turkey's Dardanelles Strait, the only shipping lane connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean sea through this strait, and its strategic geographical location is extremely important.
In the Aegean Sea, Michelons Island, marked by windmills, is synonymous with the Aegean Archipelago, with narrow alleys, small white houses, or red or green or blue fairytale doors and windows, small white churches and other Greek-style ancient buildings.
The customs of the Mediterranean sea vary, but the unique climatic characteristics make the style of the countries along the Mediterranean coastal area consistent.
Usually "Mediterranean style" furniture uses several design elements: white stucco walls, continuous arcades and arches, as well as terracotta tiles, sea blue roof tiles and the layout of doors and windows. Of course, the elements of the design cannot be simply pieced together, and there must be a stylistic soul that runs through it. For what is the soul of the Mediterranean style, the current consensus is "the romantic feelings of the Mediterranean blue", the beautiful scenery of the pure beauty of nature with the same color of the sea and the sky and the bright sun.
The beauty of the Mediterranean style, including the bright colors of the sea and the sky as if washed by the water, the white walls, the fragrant lavender, the gorgeous roses, the fragrance of jasmine, the colors of the blossoming flower fields, the ancient buildings with a long history, and the strong nationality of the earth yellow and reddish brown intertwined, constitute the unique beautiful landscape color of the Mediterranean sea.