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Charleston Bump A deep-water, rocky bottom feature on the Blake Plateau southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, that in part accounts for the Gulf Stream bend to the NE, contributing to the formation of a large eddy in this region. See: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03bump/background/geology/geology.html

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