Lower salinity increases the conductivity of sea water.

Results indicate that both seawater salinity and pressure increase while seawater temperature decreases with depth in the vicinity of the minimum seawater conductivity. Increasing salinity and pressure can increase the seawater conductivity, while decreasing the temperature has the opposite effect.

Explanation:

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south africa, or rather all of africa, has not been in the location in which it is nowadays throughout the geological past. after the super-continent pangaea started to break apart, gondwanaland, in which was africa, moved further south, and parts of it came to be very close to the south pole. because the climate in this part of the world is very cold due to the very dispersed sun rays in there, what is now south africa, started to freeze, and the conditions were right for the formation of glaciers. the glaciers existed up until the period when gondwanaland started to break apart and what is now africa started to move towards north, sp it warmed up and the glaciers melted.