halocline
Sign in to saveA halocline (or salinity chemocline), from the Greek words hals (salt) and klinein (to slope), refers to a layer within a body of water (water column) where there is a sharp change in salinity (salt concentration) with depth.
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- Description
- Movement of the halocline
- Salinity and density
- Global and regional halocline depths
- Other types of clines
- See also
- References
A halocline (or salinity chemocline), from the Greek words hals (salt) and klinein (to slope), refers to a layer within a body of water (water column) where there is a sharp change in salinity (salt concentration) with depth.
Haloclines are typically found in oceans or large estuaries and it is a type of chemical stratification that is most commonly found in places where freshwater from rivers or melting ice, mixes with salty ocean water.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “halocline” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.