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Gulf Shores Museum

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Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Gulf Shores Museum
Phone:
+1 251-968-1473

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 12pm, 1pm - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 12pm, 1pm - 5pm
Thursday10am - 12pm, 1pm - 5pm
Friday10am - 12pm, 1pm - 5pm
Saturday10am - 2pm


The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida border the Gulf on the north, which are often referred to as the Third Coast, in comparison with the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The Gulf of Mexico formed approximately 300 million years ago as a result of plate tectonics. The Gulf of Mexico basin is roughly oval and is approximately 810 nautical miles wide and floored by sedimentary rocks and recent sediments. It is connected to part of the Atlantic Ocean through the Florida Straits between the U.S. and Cuba, and with the Caribbean Sea via the Yucatán Channel between Mexico and Cuba. With the narrow connection to the Atlantic, the Gulf experiences very small tidal ranges. The size of the Gulf basin is approximately 1.6 million km2 . Almost half of the basin is shallow continental shelf waters. The basin contains a volume of roughly 2,500 quadrillion liters . The Gulf of Mexico is one of the most important offshore petroleum production regions in the world, comprising one-sixth of the United States' total production.
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