Sentences with phrase «volumes of salty water»
They used the model to estimate stress changes induced in the area by two wastewater injection wells and the more than 70 production wells that remove both natural gas and significant volumes of salty water known as brine.
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Scientists have long suspected that the network of cracks in Europa's ice sheet could indicate a large volume of water underneath, and recent analysis of magnetic field data from the Galileo probe seems to confirm there is a salty ocean down there.
The main issue is that sea ice is fresher than sea water (has less salt), and since salty water is more dense (1028 kg / m3) than fresher water (1004 kg / m3 for 5 psu), the volume of sea water displaced by the ice is slightly less than the volume of the ice if it melted.
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.