Real pictures, but misinterpreted. Natural phenomena naturally encourage explanations. But sometimes these explanations produce a false result.
For example, the explanation of a video in which you can see how two different colored bodies of water meet each other.
A bright water front floods over the darker water surface, clearly defined and unmixed. This drama is not fake and has the potential to become a viral hit. If only it weren't for the wrong explanation: there is currently a video on Facebook that shows exactly this phenomenon.
The description explains that this is where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet and each ocean has its own water color. However, this explanation is incorrect, even though two different bodies of water actually meet here in the end.
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The explanation is quite simple. This is not where two oceans meet, but where fresh water meets salt water, which have different densities. On the one hand it is salty seawater and on the other hand it is meltwater containing iron. This meltwater comes from rivers on the Alaska coast. Since it has a lower salt content than sea water, it is lighter than salt water and therefore lies like a carpet over the sea water, which is shown in this impressive video, but has also been documented in numerous other images.
However, many of these images also have the wrong explanation in their description, like this image which claims "WHERE TWO OCEANS MEET".
@Chinmayi WHERE TWO OCEANS MEET These two bodies of water were merging in the middle of The Gulf of Alaska @Chinmayi pic.twitter.com/uv4iPb58oM
— SG Balaji (@sgbalaji2000) May 3, 2013
Neither static nor permanent
In the Alaska Dispatch News article “Mythbusting 'the place where two oceans meet' in the Gulf of Alaska” Ken Bruland, professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, explains in more detail and points out that this effect does not always occur in the same place occurs, which is related to how strong the sedimentation is and how the currents are currently behaving.
“They do eventually mix, but you do come across these really strong gradients at these specific moments in time,” he said. Such borders are never static, he added, as they move around and disappear altogether, depending on the level of sediment and the whims of the water.
Bruland also says that at some point the different water masses mix.
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