Dictionary of Environmental Health
The layer of water in a large body of water, such as a lake, sea or ocean, which separates a warmer surface layer from a colder deeper layer. The thermal or TEMPERATURE GRADIENT across the thermocline usually exceeds the temperature differential within the layers that lie above and below it.
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