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What is it called where a body of fresh water from a river mixes with salt water?
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∙ 14y ago
it mixes to create brackish water
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What is the body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water called?
The body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water is called an estuary. This commonly an enclosed body of water.
What is fresh water that mixes with ocean water called?
Water that is a mixture of fresh water and salt water is called brackish water.
A place where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water is a?
An estuary is the place when river water mixes with seawater (salty ocean water).
Where does the River Nile cease to be salt water and become fresh water?
As in the case of all rivers which flow into seas or oceans, the Nile River mixes its fresh water with the salt water of the Mediterranean at its delta. There is no exact point at which a river ceases to be fresh water and become salt water.
What is a coastal inlet or bay called where fresh water mixes with salt water?
an estuarie
What is the name for an area in which fresh water mixes with salt water?
Generally, these are rivers called estuaries.
Is the Euphrates river fresh water?
All rivers are fresh. When they get near the ocean, the fresh river water mixes with the ocean water in the river "delta" as the tides go in and out.
What happens when freshwater flows into saltwater?
It will eventually mix, however as salt water is more dense than fresh water it if possible for fresh water to float on salt water before it mixes, When it does this the boundary is called a 'halocline'.Also it is called brakish water im not sure how it is spelled though like the east river is called brakish water
How does water of Mississippi river change to salt water when it gets to the ocean?
The Miss. River is fresh water, and when it collides with the Gulf Of Mexico, it mixes with the salt ocean water, thus becoming salt water!!
What is an ecosystem in which fresh water mixes with salt water from the ocean?
WHAT MEAN SALT WATER MIXES IN A Ecosysten
What body of water where fresh water from a stream mixes with salt water?
It is just when the river eventually flows into the two bodies of water and combines into one. Like a water fall.
Which body of water in egypt has both fresh water and salty water?
The body of water in Egypt that has both fresh and salty water is where the River Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The fresh water from the Nile mixes with the salty Mediterranean water, creating a barrier between the two.
