Sentences with phrase «warm salty water became»

In shallow seas that dominated subtropical regions, warm salty water became dense enough to sink to the bottom.

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In this pattern, warm waters flow northward from the tropics, then cool and become saltier and denser as they reach higher latitudes.

But in the longer term, thousands of years from now, waters in the North Pacific may eventually become warm and salty enough to establish a PMOC, just as there was in the Pliocene.

This water warms up to the east, where it becomes saltier and then sinks in the Levantine Sea before circulating west and exiting through the Strait of Gibraltar.

If this water becomes slightly warmer and a lot saltier it could still sink and displace slightly colder and much less salty water.

The counter-current could be interrupted when the surface water in the Arctic becomes less salty and fails to sink, and the water could become less salty when the warming climate increases the Arctic rainfall.