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Nature holds a mystery wrapped in millions of charms. Natural phenomena that occur often amaze us and open our eyes to how many things we don’t know. The world we live in also has many unusual natural phenomena that make scientists curious. One of them, the discovery of the phenomenon of the river under the Black Sea.
The underwater river in the Black Sea was first discovered by Dr. Dan Parson and his team from the University of Leeds on August 1, 2010. They found that the river is a channel of salty water that rushes along the bottom of the Black Sea and through the Black Sea.
Quoted from Ecology Center, the river is 60 km long, 0.97 km wide and 35 meters deep. Its flow rate is 4 miles per hour and it carries 22,000 cubic meters of water per second.
To note, underwater rivers can only be explored through special underwater vehicles because of their strength and unpredictability. Parson and his team explored this never-before-seen current in a robotic submarine.
The discoveries confirm the existence of this kind of water, and scientists around the world are considering the possibility that there are more underwater and on the ocean floor.
The reasons for the formation of the river can vary. Sometimes, underwater rivers originate from the larger part of the ocean beneath and flow, carrying large amounts of sediment. Then over time, this flow turns it into a complete river that has its own river body.
In the case of the river under the Black Sea, Parson and his team believe the underwater river originates from the salty waters of the Mediterranean Sea flowing into the Black Sea via the Bosphorus Strait. The sediment carried by this flow makes the river bed form a separate structure.
Similar findings emerged in 2017. A French oceanographer named Yves Costeau discovered Cenote Angelita, a river flowing under the waters of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The existence of a river flow in Cenote Angelita is due to the presence of hydrogen sulfide in that place.
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2023-07-17 22:45:54
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