Oceanosphere
The oceanosphere is one of the earth's spheres . It describes the entirety of the marine waters on earth. It thus includes all the waters of the seas above the ocean floor ( sea water ). It also includes the waters below the seabed there (marine groundwater ).
The oceanosphere is the largest of the three parts of the near-surface hydrosphere . The other parts are called the limnosphere and atmospheric water . A synonym for the oceanosphere is the thalassosphere .
The waters of the oceanosphere usually consist of salt water , but some areas can have greatly reduced salinity . These include, for example, the eastern sections of the Baltic Sea . As parts of the hydrosphere, both the oceanosphere and the limnosphere are completely and equally integrated into the earth-wide water cycle . As a result, their waters merge smoothly near the coasts . There natural phenomena can develop that are located in the transition field between the oceanosphere and the limnosphere. Such natural phenomena of transition include, for example, the waters of river mouths , which only gradually mix with seawater and in this way form broad bodies of brackish water . Seawater can also get underground to behind the coast and create salty groundwater deposits there.
Individual evidence
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