Eddies Move Mountains (of Ocean Water) (IMAGE)

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Eddies Move Mountains (of Ocean Water)

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A three-dimensional structure of an oceanic mesoscale eddy and the fluid trapped by this eddy is shown. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 26 June, 2014, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, Zhengguang Zhang at the Ocean University of China in Qingdao, China, and colleagues was titled, "Oceanic Mass Transport by Mesoscale Eddies."

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[Image courtesy of Sergey Kryazhimskiy]

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