| Less than 5m out from the shore, a mud bank shelves off steeply into the depths, passing through a thick halocline layer in the shallows. |
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| Further in, the tunnel narrowed and shallowed slightly, until at 30m there was a distinct murky halocline. |
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| The mechanism of forming two halocline layers in the Bering Sea could be attributed to the seasonal variations of temperature and mixing intensity in surface waters. |
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| The halocline prevents vertical mixing and thus the transport of oxygen to the lower water body. |
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| This process leaves dense, salty waters in the sea that sink over the continental shelf into the western Arctic Ocean and create a halocline. |
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| In higher latitudinal areas of the North Pacific in which solar heating of the surface waters is low and rainfall is abundant, salinities increase markedly with depth through the halocline layer. |
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| Major inflows of higher salinity water that strengthen the halocline layer and bring oxygen to the lower water body occur irregularly at intervals of a few to several years. |
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| The halocline often coincides with the thermocline, and the combination produces a pronounced pycnocline. |
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| A zone of rapid salinity increase with depth is called a halocline. |
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| In case of a difference in salinity, the hypolimnion and epilimnion are separated not by a thermocline but by a halocline, which is sometimes referred to as a chemocline. |
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| Halocline, vertical zone in the oceanic water column in which salinity changes rapidly with depth, located below the well-mixed, uniformly saline surface water layer. |
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