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What is the difference in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific?
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Would one cause fingers to wrinkle and the other, not? What causes this?
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You have asked to totally different questions. The fingers would wrinkle in both of the waters.
There is now differences in the waters as a whole
Subsurface Currents Figure 2: The following illustration describes the flow pattern of the major subsurface ocean currents. Near surface warm currents are drawn in red. Blue depicts the deep cold currents. Note how this syst...
You have asked to totally different questions. The fingers would wrinkle in both of the waters.
There is now differences in the waters as a whole
Subsurface Currents Figure 2: The following illustration describes the flow pattern of the major subsurface ocean currents. Near surface warm currents are drawn in red. Blue depicts the deep cold currents. Note how this system is continuously moving water from the surface to deep within the oceans and back to the top of the ocean. (Source: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)).The world's oceans also have significant currents that flow beneath the surface (Figure 2). Subsurface currents generally travel at a much slower speed when compared to surface flows. The subsurface currents are driven by differences in the density of seawater. The density of seawater deviates in the oceans because of variations in temperature and salinity. Near-surface seawater begins its travel deep into the ocean in the North Atlantic. The downwelling of this water is caused by high levels of evaporation that cool and increase the salinity of the seawater as it flows poleward. The downwelling (sinking) of this cold, dense, saline water takes place between Northern Europe and Greenland and just north of of Labrador, Canada. This seawater then moves south at depth along the coast of North and South America until it reaches Antarctica. At Antarctica, the cold and dense seawater then travels eastward joining another deep current that is created by evaporation and sinking occuring between Antarctica and the southern tip of South America. Slightly into its eastward voyage, the deep cold flow splits off into two currents, one of which moves northward. In the North Pacific and in the northern Indian Ocean, these two currents are drawn up from the ocean floor to its surface by wind-induced upwelling. The water warms at the surface and forms a current that flows at the surface eventually back to the starting point in the North Atlantic, or creating a shallow flow that circles around Antarctica. One complete circuit of this flow of seawater is estimated to take about 1,000 years.
Answer Date: 05:38pm 02/10/08
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Direct measurements of the isotopic composition of Nd in seawater samples from the Atlantic and Pacific are in excellent agreement with the values determined from the ferromanganese sediments indicating that these sediments accurately reflect the isotopic composition of Nd dissolved in seawater. The results clearly demonstrate the existence of distinctive Nd isotopic differences in waters of the major ocean basins. These values correspond to a difference in the absolute abundance of 143Nd between the Atlantic and the Pa...
Direct measurements of the isotopic composition of Nd in seawater samples from the Atlantic and Pacific are in excellent agreement with the values determined from the ferromanganese sediments indicating that these sediments accurately reflect the isotopic composition of Nd dissolved in seawater. The results clearly demonstrate the existence of distinctive Nd isotopic differences in waters of the major ocean basins. These values correspond to a difference in the absolute abundance of 143Nd between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans of ~ 10(6) atoms 143Nd per gram of seawater. In addition to the isotopic differences observed between the ocean basins, smaller but distinctive variations are observed in the water column of both the Pacific and the Atlantic, indicating different sources of REE at different levels in the water column. This suggests that it may be possible to distinguish the sources of water masses within an ocean basin on the basis of Nd isotopic composition.
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Answer Date: 09:55pm 02/10/08