11. Fahrbach et al . propose that low-salinity bottom water is formed near the Larsen Ice Shelf. 12. A unique feature of Antarctic bottom water is the cold surface wind blowing off the Antarctic continent. 13. Each summer, hypoxic conditions form in bottom waters where the Mississippi River enters the Gulf of Mexico. 14. No significant accumulations of nutrients in the bottom waters was found at any of the monitoring stations. 15. The deficiency of oxygen in bottom waters changes the types of organisms that live on the bottom. 16. As a result, oxygen consumption in bottom waters is greater than diffusion of oxygen from surface waters. 17. In the Baltic Sea, low oxygen concentrations also reduce the ability of cod to spawn in bottom waters . 18. The denser salt water also reduces mixing of oxygen poor bottom waters with more brackish, lighter surface waters. 19. Bottom water by an estuary of a river discharging into a saline body exhibits peculiar transport of mud.20. If mixing of the bottom waters is slow, such that oxygen stocks are not renewed, hypoxia can occur
