Image Database 11

The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt

Made in 96/10/20

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Dr. Wallace S. Brocker, 1987 Illustrated by Joe Le Monnier, Natural history Magazine

Sea water cooling in Arctic Ocean is the driving force of this circulation. The circulation takes 1,600 years to complete. The circulation stopped about 12,000 years ago by sea water dilution in north Atlantic Ocean.

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