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A sea is a great area of saline water associated with an ocean, or a large, normally saline, lake that lacks a natural opening like the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The term is used colloquially as identical with ocean, as in "the tropical sea" or "down to the sea shore", or even "sea water" to known to water of the ocean. Large lakes, like the Great Lakes, are at times referred to as inland seas. Many seas are marginal seas, in which currents are caused by ocean winds; others are the Mediterranean seas, in which currents are caused by differences in salinity and temperature.

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