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meltwater
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meltwater [′melt‚wȯd·ər]
(hydrology)
Water derived from melting ice or snow, especially glacier ice.


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This was due to the fact that meltwaters were evacuated along a "western route", in the North Atlantic, whereas relatively high salinity conditions still prevailed in the northeast sector, thus allowing convection and deep water formation to resume along this "eastern route" (e.
 
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