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Yucatán Basin
basin, Caribbean Sea
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Caribbean Sea
- In Caribbean Sea: Physiography
The northernmost of these, the Yucatán Basin, is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Yucatán Channel, which runs between Cuba and the Yucatán Peninsula and has a sill depth (i.e., the depth of the submarine ridge between basins) of about 5,250 feet (1,600 metres). The Cayman Basin, to…
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