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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Merging Oceans



 


An example of a Halocline described on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halocline




What you are seeing is a result of the melting glaciers being composed of fresh water and the ocean has a higher percentage of salt causing the two bodies of water to have different densities and therefore makes it more difficult to mix. They will eventually mix given enough time....



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