There is fresh water on one side and salt water on the other, but there is no partially saline water between.
As a result, it is not all fresh water but has a salt water cell at the bottom.
I think it is important that those two other types of salt water should be included.
There is brackish water and salt water and water from the river estuaries.
Critical behavior of a binary mixture of protein and salt water.
It would also occur when there is salt water under fresh water on one side of the lock gate and turbid water under fresh water on the other.
Fish were routinely treated with formaldehyde (1 : 4000) and subsequent immersion in salt water upon arrival to the aquarium, the last treatment occurring 50 days before the start of experiments.
This would result in a partially flooded limestone surface allowing intrusions of salt water from a nearby sea.