Thermocline

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A layer within a body of water or air where the temperature changes rapidly with depth.

    "Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer."

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"A thermocline is the transition layer between warmer mixed water at the ocean's surface and cooler deep water below."

Etymology

From thermo- + -cline.

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