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Social media exposure shows polar overspill hitting Gulf of Alaska, not two oceans

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  • The photo is not of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans cladding each otherwise.

  • This phenomenon occurs when frosty runoff coming from rivers meet the ocean urine.

At first sight on Facebook, a micro-organism photo appears to show off an earthly marvel: the stark line dividing the differently shady waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The Facebook write u Newz.com on July 23 described the photo as existence embezzled where "the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean face all other without mixing."

But this isn't what's happening in the movie. The post was flagged equally part of Facebook's efforts to scrap false news and misinformation connected its word feed. (Read more nigh PolitiFact's partnership with Facebook.)

Several publications have determined that the photo was taken in the Gulf of Alaska. (The Atlantic and Pacific Ocean Ocean meet at the southernmost tip of South America.)

Reported to Science Focus, the discoloration between the people of water in the photo is actually "viewing light-coloured, sediment-rich people freshwater from melted glaciers meeting dark, salty ocean water system in the Disconnection of Last Frontier (and over time, currents and eddies movement these to mix, too)." The amount of frosty runoff causes a delay in the bodies from admixture, and the amount of time IT takes for the two to merge canful make up the color effect.

Heidi Dierssen, professor of marine science and geography at the University of Connecticut, in agreement, saying that the photo shows "fronts of dissimilar water system mass from rivers and ocean."

The Newz.com account provided an article for its claim, but Dierssen aforesaid IT contained roughly errors. It claimed that the different densities and stuff compositions of each sea causes the difference in color. Dierssen explained that ocean properties, including color, are highly dependent connected latitude and the ocean gyres in sea basins.

"The Atlantic has high salinity than the Pacific, but the temperature and color (related to chlorophyll properties) are Thomas More kindred to nutrients and upwelling and downwelling enatic to the ocean gyres," she said.

The pic is real, merely the caption about information technology showing two oceans is wrong. For that intellect, we rate this call Insincere.

Facebook post, July 23, 2021

Newz.com, Wherefore do the two great oceans of the Earth never mix?, accessed July 28, 2021

National Ocean Service, What is a thermocline?, accessed July 28, 2021

Science Focus, Is it true that the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans don't mix?, accessed July 28, 2021

AFP, No, this video doesn't show the point where the Atlantic and Pacfic ocean "meet but don't mix," Family 14, 2018

Email exchange with Dr. Heidi Dierssen, professor of leatherneck science and geography at University of Connecticut, July 28, 2021

Reverse image search, picture, accessed July 28, 2021

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