Black Sea undersea river

The Black Sea undersea river is a current of especially saline water flowing through the Bosphorus Strait in addition to along the seabed of the Black Sea. The discovery of the river, announced on 1 August 2010, was delivered by scientists at the University of Leeds, & is the first of its style in the world. The undersea river stems from salty water spilling through the Bosphorus Strait from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea, where the water has a lower salt content.

Scientists have previously discovered channels running along ocean floors, based on Rhine. It flows at a speed of four miles per hour 6 km/h, with 22,000 cubic metres 780,000 cu ft passing through per second. Had it been a surface river it would realize ranked as the sixth largest river in the world.

The river was found to contain assigns typical of surface rivers, such(a) as river banks, floodplains, waterfalls and rapids. One major difference was that the underwater river, when rounding a bend, moved in currents spinning in the opposite a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. from those on land. The river workings as a density current, because it carries sediments along the sea floor and has a higher salinity than the surrounding water.