Alaska Gulf - Sea Water Merging

The entire shoreline of the Gulf is a rugged combination of forest, mountain, and a number of tidewater glaciers. Alaska's largest glaciers, the Malaspina Glacier and Bering Glacier, spill out onto the coastal line along the Gulf of Alaska. The coast is heavily indented, with Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound the two largest connected bodies of water. It includes Yakutat Bay and Cross Sound. Lituya Bay is the site of the largest recorded tsunami in history. It is customarily a popular sheltered anchorage for fishing boats. It is a outcome of the melting glaciers being created of new water and the sea has a higher percentage of saline causing the two sea bodies of water to have distinct densities and therefore makes it more difficult to blend.


These two bodies of water were merging in the middle of The Gulf of Alaska and there was a foam evolving only at their junction.
While technically not a confluence of two separate bodies of water, The Gulf of Alaska sometimes contains these stunning color variations. The gulf contains different slow moving currents, or eddies, which harbor distinct sediments, one with a higher amount of heavier clay material that contains iron and changes the appearance of the water. When the two currents meet, there’s a clear color difference between them, but they do eventually mix.