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Explain how the North Atlantic deep water current forms.

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The formation of the North-Atlantic deep water current involves the conversion of warm salty sea water from the Equatorial area moving to the cold dense deep waters behind the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland Ridge.

The mixture of the warm and cold waters causes the current to form and then moving clockwise from Greenland towrads Scotland and Norway

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