dead water
Sign in to savenautical term for a phenomenon which can occur when a layer of fresh or brackish water rests on top of denser salt water, without the two layers mixing
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- Instance of
- natural phenomenon
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- Dead water
- named by
- Fridtjof Nansen
- studied by
- oceanography
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