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The Gulf of Mexico contains mostly saltwater. This is because of the high salinity levels in the ocean water due to the presence of dissolved salts from the Earth's crust.
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What large body of salt water borders a part of the Louisiana purchase?
The Gulf of Mexico borders a part of the Louisiana Purchase.
How do fresh water and salt water form layers?
Fresh water and salt water form layers due to differences in density. Salt water is denser than fresh water, so when they come into contact, the salt water sinks beneath the fresh water, creating distinct layers. This process is known as stratification.
Do rivers have salt water in them?
No, rivers typically have fresh water, not salt water. Salt water is found in oceans and seas.
Which province has borders on fresh water and salt water?
Nova Scotia is the province in Canada that has borders on both fresh water (Atlantic Ocean) and salt water (Bay of Fundy).
What type of water in a rainforest salt water or fresh water?
Rainforest water is typically fresh water, derived from rainfall, rivers, and streams. Salt water bodies such as oceans and seas are not present within a rainforest ecosystem.
Is the Persian gulf salt water or fresh?
Salt water. The Persian gulf is one of the saltiest bodies of water on earth.
What happens to the Mississippi River water when it flows into the Gulf of Mexico?
When the Mississippi River water flows into the Gulf of Mexico the fresh water does not mix immediately with the salt water. Instead, it takes a while and the fresh water forms a plume and does not mix for a while.
Could you drink water from gulf of Mexico yes or no?
The water found in the Gulf of Mexico is salt (not fresh) water. Drinking such water could lead to kidney failure. So definitively no, you can't drink that 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!!
Is the Gulf of Carpentaria salt or fresh water?
The Gulf of Carpentaria, off the northern coast of Queensland, Australia, is salt water.
Salt or fresh water surrounded by land?
a gulf!
Is the gulf of Mexico salt water?
The Gulf of Mexico is an oceanic basin, and by definition, must contain salt water. Something like that thought the Gulf of mexico is basically a reef or in other words a really big lake that covers 4 percent of the world which is 2 aquers
What is the percentage of salt in water of the Gulf of Mexico?
10%
Does gulf stream have salt water or freash water?
Salt water. The Gulf of Mexico is salt water because it connects to Atlantic Ocean.
Is the Arabian gulf salt or fresh water?
It is extremely salty.
What percentage of the world's salt water is in the Gulf of Mexico?
10%
What closest body of salt water to Mississippi?
The gulf of Mexico.
