A later pass showed that the south pole was much warmer than expected, and was spouting geysers of
salty water into space.
Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand and
salty water into the surrounding muskeg.
This will mean the influx of
saltier water into the western basin will cease.
Not exact matches
If you were to order your employees to jump off
into the cold
salty water, miles from shore on any given day, they'd look at you like you were crazy.
A July 2012 study by researchers at Duke University and California State Polytechnic University at Pomona found that
salty water from deep underground could make its way
into drinking
water near the surface.
In the kitchen, if bread doesn't rise, I repurpose it
into crackers; if vegetables are too spicy, I stir in yogurt to cool them down; if a grain bowl is too
salty, I add more rice and
water.
Cut parsnips and carrots
into bite size pieces, and boil in
salty water for 20 minutes or until fully cooked.
The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its
water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it
into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as
salty as today's Dead Sea.
Part of this phosphorus has been replaced by
saltier water and moved
into the higher
water layers.
Chemical clues in the mangroves and algae can also tell how
salty the
water was, which shows whether or not El Niño was raising the local sea level and causing more seawater to seep
into the coastal wetlands.
The results were encouraging: The new «sea
water» formed a layer on top of the even
saltier Dead Sea
water, and flowed back up
into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging it.
The heavier
salty water flowing
into the main basin has partially replaced the old eutrophic and anoxic
water, which has in turn moved towards the mouth of the Gulf of Finland.
The impact of the
salty, oxygen - rich
water that flowed
into the Baltic Sea main basin (Baltic Proper) in December 2014 via the Danish straits was still visible in August up to the deep basins east of Gotland.
Experiments and simulations by Marc Prat at the University of Toulouse in France and colleagues show how
salty water evaporating from the pores in these materials leaves behind patches of salt crystals that grow
into towers rather than a uniform film.
Beneath it lies another layer of rock full of ancient,
salty water, and the change in
water flow is allowing that to seep
into the fresh
water above.
In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of
water ice and vapor erupting
into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a
salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.
They suggest that calcium perchlorate in the ground absorbs
water from the atmosphere until it dissolves
into a
salty solution, or brine.
Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt
water into the
salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.
New research shows that infected crabs can rid themselves of parasites by moving
into the less
salty water of estuaries.
So when more recent waves and tides brought in
salty seawater from the ocean, the brackish
water underneath the beaches became
salty enough to release the cesium from the sand, and it was carried back
into the ocean.
In Oklahoma, the
water being put
into the ground is mostly
salty water that comes up during oil exploration and is then re-injected after the oil has been stripped out.
CO2 pumped
into these formations are sealed under impermeable cap rocks, where it gradually dissolves
into the
salty water and mineralizes.
When CO2 is pumped
into underground porous rocks, it combines with metal ions in the
salty water that fills the rock pores and mineralizes
into mineral carbonates, such as calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
As a result, more melt
water is mixing with the
salty seawater and pulses of warmer Atlantic seawater have intruded
into the Arctic Ocean.
Ground level evaporation during the dry period concentrated calcium in
salty surface
water flowing
into the caves.
Although turning
salty ocean
water into fresh
water is important to benefit poverty - stricken populations, desalination has a very damaging ecological footprint.
«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh
water — more
water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured
into the normally
salty northern Atlantic.»
The best - known example of this process, known as salt fingering, occurs where very
salty water from the Mediterranean outflow mixes
into the North Atlantic.
Evaporation in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean left ocean
waters there
saltier and put fresh
water vapor
into the atmosphere.
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into chunks or fries, sprinkle with cinnamon and bake) Smoothies (mix whatever you have in the kitchen such as fresh or frozen fruit, ice, coconut
water or nut milk, avocado, kale or spinach, carob powder or raw cacao, nut butter, seeds, etc.) Craving something
SALTY?
While Arnel worked on setting up our umbrella I whisked away to the beach to dip my feet
into the
salty water, which was beyond refreshing.
Belugas also travel up northern rivers
into brackish (partly
salty)
water and estuaries (where a river meets the seas) to hunt prey during the summer.
Nestle
into the plush seating area; savor a cool Caribbean cocktail and breath in the
salty sea air from your own private roof terrace with cool
water Jacuzzi.
Of course, jumping
into the ocean from one of the two docks is a great way to cool off during the day if you crave your
water more
salty than the pools offer.
The
salty water pools
into the fairly shallow ponds and the hot sun evaporates the
water, allowing the salt to crystalize on the earth walls and floor.
At the mines,
salty water is diverted
into pools and then dried up by the sun — what's left is a thin layer of salt.
The opposite East Greenland Current brings cold, less
salty water and lots of ice from the Arctic back
into the Atlantic Ocean.
We might have a saviour in the form of the growing antarctic ice sheets in the southern winter as this causes much more planckton to form on the undersurface of the forming ice sheet driving super saturated
salty waters deep
into the circum polar antarctic bottom
waters which is the main driver of the Great Oceanic Conveyor and later on it's travels the AMOC.
If enough fresh
water from melting glaciers flows
into the North Atlantic, this would make the seawater less
salty and less dense, so that it couldn't sink anymore.
«The overwash events generally result in
salty ocean
water seeping
into the ground and contaminating the freshwater aquifer.
According to fluid modelling, at one point the accumulation of OCAPE was released abruptly (~ 1 month)
into kinetic energy of thermobaric cabbeling convection (TCC), resulting in the warmer
salty waters getting to the surface and subsequently warming of ca. 2 °C sea surface warming.
A greater - than - normal volume of warm
salty tropical
water was transported north with the current and this was drawn down
into the ocean in the region around 60 ° N - where dense
water sinking occurs.
Evaporative loss leaves the ocean
saltier; the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf for example have strong evaporative loss; the resulting plume of dense
salty water may be traced through the Straits of Gibraltar
into the Atlantic Ocean.
Many factors — like the thermohaline circulation, which reverses direction at the poles as warm
salty water releases heat
into the air and sinks down to the bottom — are heavily influenced by the ocean's salinity, and thus, the movement of freshwater
into and around the Arctic plays an important role in shaping both regional and global climate.
In this case, the study suggests that the massive amounts of fresh
water melting
into the ocean from Greenland can prevent the sinking of the dense, cold,
salty water and alter the AMOC circulation.
As the last major ice age began to recede around 17,000 years ago, polar ice caps in the north and south started to melt, releasing vast quantities of fresh
water into the
salty oceans, altering natural currents, affecting the environment.
Increase wave action, especially when there's no thick ice to dampen the waves, flooding floes with
saltier water that melts the ice, but can also temporarily fool satellite sensors
into thinking there's open
water.
Climatologists believe this is because more fresh
water is coming
into the Arctic (from increased river flow and ice sheet melting) and making the
water up there less
salty and thus less able to sink.
Must be some significant cause and effect to
saltier brine
water melting and re-freezing every year and sinking
into the thermocline that affects ocean currents over long term time scales.
As it pours
into the Atlantic, the freshwater is lighter and colder than heavier,
salty water that typically occupies that area.