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Submarines, sinking and floating, density, and pressure. Glen Carter shows how technology is used to study density differences in the ocean, where internal waves influence the circulation of the global ocean - a process that mixes fresh water, salt water, and pollutants, and takes around 1,000 years.
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18:02
Exploring Our Fluid Earth, a product of the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG), College of Education. University of Hawaii, 2011. This document may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-profit educational purposes.