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Currents around in the North Atlantic Ocean and into two Greenland Fjords.

Currents around in the North Atlantic Ocean and into two Greenland Fjords.
Currents around in the North Atlantic Ocean and into two Greenland Fjords.
Currents around in the North Atlantic Ocean and into two Greenland Fjords.
Currents around in the North Atlantic Ocean and into two Greenland Fjords.
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Cook, John E.
Currents around in the North Atlantic Ocean and into two Greenland Fjords.
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10/01/2009
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 1, pg. 15:
Into the mouths of fjords--
In earlier times, when the ice sheet extended farther and sea level was lower, glaciers carved deep troughs all the way to the edge of Greenlands continental shelf. Today, the troughs provide passageways for warm waters at the edge of the shelf to flow across the shelf into the fjord.
Illustration by Jack Cook
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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