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As the temperature continues to drop, the water on the surface may get cold enough to freeze and the lake/ocean begins to ice over. A new thermocline develops where the densest water (4 °C (39 °F)) sinks to the bottom, and the less dense water (water that is approaching the freezing point) rises to the top.
Deep ocean water is the name for cold, salty water found deep below the surface of Earth's oceans. Deep ocean water makes up about 90% of the volume of the oceans. Deep ocean water has a very uniform temperature of around 0-3 °C. Its salinity is about 3.5% or 35 ppt (parts per thousand). [3]
Liriope are usually used in the garden for their evergreen foliage as a groundcover. Some species, e.g., L. spicata, grow aggressively in the right conditions, spreading by runners; hence their nickname, "creeping lilyturf". In the southeastern United States Liriope is sometimes referred to by the common name monkey grass or spider grass.
The extent of the ocean surface down into the ocean is influenced by the amount of mixing that takes place between the surface water and the deeper water. This depends on the temperature: in the tropics the warm surface layer of about 100 m is quite stable and does not mix much with deeper water, while near the poles winter cooling and storms makes the surface layer denser and it mixes to ...
Liriope may refer to: Liriope (nymph), the mother of Narcissus by the river-god Cephissus, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses. Liriope, a genus of lilioid monocot plants, named for the nymph; Liriope, a genus of hydrozoans in the family Geryoniidae; 414 Liriope, a main belt asteroid, also named for the nymph
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On the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, an estimated 9.2-magnitude earthquake violently shook the seafloor off Indonesia, sending a 100-foot wall of water towards communities around the Indian Ocean.
[3] [4] It covers 83% of the total area of the ocean and 60% of Earth's surface. [5] The abyssal zone has temperatures around 2–3 °C (36–37 °F) through the large majority of its mass. [3] The water pressure can reach up to 76 MPa (750 atm; 11,000 psi).