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It travels south and rises to the surface to replace the warmer waters traveling north, and the process continues.
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The water doesn’t remain where it is after hitting the seabed. As the waters meet, the cooler and denser waters of the Greenland Sea sharply slide down to the ocean floor, creating the waterfall. The Denmark Strait Cataract is the result of the cooler waters of the Greenland Sea meeting the warmer water of the Irminger Sea. However, it is no match for the 3,500-meter-tall (11,500 ft) Denmark Strait Cataract under the Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Iceland. At 979 meters (3,212 ft), Angel Falls is incredibly high-so high that some of its water evaporates before it reaches the bottom. Type “the highest waterfall in the world” into your search engine, and it will most likely return with Angel Falls in Canaima National Park, Venezuela. The Hamza’s extremely slow rate of flow could be the result of it flowing through porous rocks and not open space like the Amazon. Even glaciers cover more than that distance in a year. A mere 100 meters a year is an abysmally slow speed for a river. Water doesn’t even travel more than 100 meters (330 ft) a year in the Hamza, which has caused some scientists, including Professor Hamza, to argue that it doesn’t technically qualify as a river. Water flows through the Hamza at a rate of one million gallons per second, which is way too small when compared with the Amazon’s flow rate of 35 million gallons per second. The Amazon wins in every other category, though. It is 200 kilometers (125 mi) wide at its narrowest and 400 kilometers (250 mi) wide at its broadest, dwarfing even the mighty Amazon.
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The Amazon may beat the Hamza in length, but the latter trounces the former in width. It is unofficially called the Hamza River in honor of geophysicist Valiya Hamza. This river is 5,950 kilometers (3,700 mi) long, which is long but still shorter than the Amazon. There is a river 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) below the Amazon River in Brazil. However, scientists could not confirm whether this translucent fish was a new species. This colorlessness is believed to be the result of the unavailability of hemogoblin, the protein that makes blood red. The largest of the fishes were also translucent, and their internal organs could be seen from the outside. Scientists could not say for sure why these fish have exceptionally big eyes, but it might be connected with their dark habitat. These microbes feed on fossilized pollen that has been buried under the ice for over 34 million years.ĭrilling 730 meters (2,400 ft) to reach a 10-meter-deep (33 ft) body of water at a nearby location, scientists found more microbes, crustaceans, and some small, strange-looking fish with large eyes. Water samples retrieved from the lake revealed the presence of microbes that have evolved to survive without the need for sunlight. This doesn’t mean it isn’t deeper at other areas, though. Scientists believe it is between 10 and 25 meters (33–82 ft) deep, although they found it to be only 2 meters (6.6 ft) deep when they drilled into it for the first time in January 2013. Lake Whillans is located under the Ross Ice Shelf in Western Antarctica.