|
Water Transitions
Title: Water Transitions
Category: Science & Technology / Chemistry
Details: Words: 699 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Water Transitions
Brackish water is a fairly salty mixture of freshwater and sea water. It is unique in numerous ways and is a life giving ecosystem. To understand what brackish water is, a background should be known about its sources.
First of all, there is freshwater. Out of all the water on the planet, only three percent of it is fresh, and only one fiftieth of one percent is readily available.
Freshwater is not pure in that …showed first 75 words of 699 total…
You are viewing only a small portion of the paper.
Please login or register to access the full copy.
|
|
…showed last 75 words of 699 total…age may have been triggered by freshwater occupying a location where saltwater was supposed to have been. There is a deep ocean current of very salty water beneath the gulf stream travelling from the tropics to the North Atlantic. As it reaches the North, it disturbs surface water, the salty water rises and discharges heat, and then it cycles back to the tropics. What could have triggered an ice age, a surge of freshwater (Stuller 33).
Need a custom written paper?
|
|
