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In oceanography, a halocline is the vertical zone in the oceanic water column in which salinity levels change rapidly with depth, located below the mixed, uniformly saline surface water layer. A halocline can be found in countless locations around the world yet some of the most developed are located in the Atlantic Ocean where salinities can decrease by several parts per thousand from the bottom of the surface layer to depths of about 3,300 feet. The opposite of a halocline would be a pycnocline where, through depth, water density increases.

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