Why the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Don't Mix
So when you look at the seas and oceans on the map, you might think that they just flow into each other. It seems like there's only one big ocean and people just give different names to its parts. Well, you'll be Amazed at how vivid the borders between them are. The border between the pacific and Atlantic oceans is like a line between two worlds.
It's as if the two seas meet at an invisible wall that does not let them flow. Into each other and mix their waters. Why on earth does it happen? We know for sure there is no invisible wall inside, and water is water. What could interfere with its mixing?
The thing is that water can be different, too. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans have different densities and chemical makeup, level of Salinity, and other qualities. One can see by their color That they are far from being the same.
The borders between the two bodies of water with different physical and biological characteristics are Known as ocean clones, hello clydes borders between waters with different Salinity are the most spectacular, and this is what we see when The Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet famous explorer Jacques Cousteau found this when he was deep diving in the straits of Gibraltar.
The layers of water with different Salinity looked like they were divided with a transparent film and each layer had its own flora and fauna. Haloclines appear when water in one ocean or sea is at least five times saltier than in the other you can create a halocline at home if you pour.
Some seawater or colored salty water in a glass, and then add some fresh water on top of it. The only difference is that your halocline will be horizontal, and ocean haloclines will be vertical. If you remember a couple of Basic things from physics, you might argue that a denser liquid should finally end up lower and less dense higher if that were true.
The border between the two oceans would look not like a vertical line but as a Horizontal one and the difference between their Salinity would become less obvious the closer they got to each other, so why doesn't it happen here?
Well, first, the difference in the density of water between the two oceans is not. That great for one of them to get down and the other to rise up, and yet it's enough to not let them mix. Still, another reason is inertia.
One of the inertial forces, known as the Coriolis force, influences objects when they Are moving in the system of axes which in its turn is moving too.
In simpler words, the earth is moving, and all the moving objects on it will be acted upon by Coriolis force deviating from their course.
As a result, the Objects on the earth's surface don't move straight on but deviate in clockwise order in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern, but the earth is moving slowly.
It takes a planet a whole day to make a full circle around its axis. That's why the Coriolis effect gets obvious only in long time intervals with cyclones and ocean flows, and This is why the direction of flows in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is different.
It also doesn't let them mix another important difference between the two oceans' water is the strength of the molecule's connection. Or surface tensile strength thanks to this strength, molecules of matter hold onto each other the two oceans have totally different surface tensile strengths, and it also doesn't let them mix.
Maybe they could Gradually start mixing with time, but as the flows in them have opposite directions, they just don't have time to do this. We think that it's just water in both oceans, but its separate molecules meet for just a short moment.
And then get carried away with the ocean flow. Don't you think, though, that only the Atlantic and Pacific oceans don't get on well with each Other there are a lot of places on the planet where water in the two seas or rivers doesn't mix? There are also thermoclines borders between water.
Of different temperatures, like the warm water of the gulf stream and the much colder north Atlantic ocean, chemo climbs are the most amazing One of these is the borders between waters having different microclimates and chemical makeup.
The sargasso sea is the biggest and most widely known chemical line. It is a sea within the Atlantic Ocean that has no. Shores, but you've got no chance not to notice it. Let's have a look at some other spectacular climbs on the planet.
1. the north and baltic seas.
These two seas meet near the danish city of Skagen, the water in them. Does not mix because of different densities sometimes. You can see the waves of the two seas clash with each other, making foam, and yet their water mixes gradually. That's why the baltic sea is slightly sailing if there. Had been no water coming to it from the north sea, it would have been a huge freshwater lake.
2. the mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean.
They meet at the strait of Gibraltar and have different densities and Salinity, so their water does not mix.
3. the Caribbean sea and the Atlantic ocean.
The place where they meet is near the Antilles, and it looks like someone has painted the water with different shades of blue and another. The place where these two meet is the Eleuthera island of the Bahamas. The Caribbean seawater is turquoise, and the Atlantic ocean water is dark blue, number four.
4. The Surinam river and the Atlantic ocean
meet near Paramaribo in South America
5. the Uruguay river and its efflux.
These two are made in mizoni's province in Argentina. One of them is cleaned to be used in agriculture, and the other gets almost red because of loam during Rainy seasons.
6. The Rio negro and solamoes rivers.
are part of the amazon river, six miles from mennos in brazil. Rio negro and Solomon rivers run into each other but don't mix for about two and a half miles. The Rio negro It is dark and solamous light. They have different temperatures and speeds of flow
7. moshel and rhein
Meet at Koblenz, Germany rhine has lighter water, and Moselle is darker.
8. ills the Danube and the junction of These three rivers are in Passau, Germany.
Ils is a small mountain river to the left. The Danube is in the middle, and in it, the light river to the right is wider than the Danube here but still is its afflux Aleksandra.
9. Bharathi rivers meet
in India alegnanda is dark and bigarathi is lime tan rush and uba flow into each other in Kazakhstan near the city. Whose name you'll never be able to pronounce, nor will I you give it a shot.
10. The urtish has clean water and ulba clouding.
11. The Jailing and Yangtze rivers
meet in Chongqing, china. The Jae-ling is clean, and the young sea is brown.
12. ertus and om
these two rivers flow into each other in Omsk, Russia. The ertus is cloudy, and the am pure and transparent.
13. chuya and cartoon rivers
meet in the Altai republic of Russia. The water of the chaya has an unusually cloudy white color here and looks dense and thick cartoon is clean and turquoise flowing into each other they form a single two-colored flow that does not mix for some time 14.
14. The green and colorado rivers
the place of their junction, is canyonlands national park in Utah, USA. Colorado is brown, and green is, yep, green. The colors of these rivers go through rocks with different chemical makeup. That's why they have such a big contrast of colors.
15. the phone And our rivers flew
into each other in geneva Switzerland the phone is a pure river that flows out of the lake of geneva the area is cloudy as it gets its water from the glaciers of the shamany valley what
What do you think about all this water? Of course, it's a bad joke, like a lot of my bad pronunciations of those river names. Hey, if you learned something.
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