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  1. Kolk (vortex) (Oceanography 🌊)

    A kolk is an underwater vortex causing hydrodynamic scour by rapidly rushing water past an underwater obstacle. High-velocity gradients produce a high-shear rotating column of water, similar to a tornado. Kolks can pluck multiple-ton blocks of rock and transport them in suspension for kilometres. Kolks leave clear evidence in the form of kolk lakes, a kind...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolk_(vo

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