Typos in definition of 'ocean' (ENVO:00000015)

[dillerm]

Current definition: "A marine water body which is constitutes the majority of an astronomical body's hydrosphere." (emphasis mine)

Proposed fix: "A saline water body which constitutes the majority of an astronomical body's hydrosphere."

[cmungall]

Thanks for noticing the typo!

Regarding marine vs saline, can you say more about the motivation? Is it because "marine" is more circular?

• Many definitions of "marine" are something like "sea or ocean"
• ENVO's own definition of "marine water body" is "A lentic water body which is composed primarily of marine water.", but we have no term "marine water" in ENVO

There are some other oddities here. In ENVO, marine WB and saline WB are sibs, but surely it should be child-parent

Here are the terms in context:

[dillerm]

Ah, whoops, I had not noticed that this class had 'marine water body' as a parent class (I was only looking at 'saline water body'). Ignore that suggestion.

[pbuttigieg]

Hm, some clean up required

In ENVO, marine WB and saline WB are sibs, but surely it should be child-parent

Should work with the primary composition axiom, as freshwater lenses etc can be permitted

[pbuttigieg]

In #1564, I've reworked these semantics to focus on the origin of the ocean/sea water via oceanogenesis.

oceanogenesis =def. "A water accumulation process which results in the formation of an ocean by the outgassing, capture, and subsequent condensation of water vapour during the formation of an astronomical body."

I've obsoleted 'marine water body', and seawater is now a subclass of ocean water, the former being modified by terrestrial processes.

ocean water =def. "Saline water which has has been formed as a result of oceanogenesis and which has its composition and properties maintained through processes including hydrological cycling, continental weathering, porewater burial, mineral deposition, ion exchange reactions, and ecological processes."

seawater =def. "Ocean water which is part of a sea and which has its properties and composition more strongly influenced by terrestrial processes - such as river runoff, groundwater seepage, aeolian transport of dust - than waters of the open ocean."

Where ocean and sea are now siblings:

ocean =def. "A lentic water body which has been formed as a result of oceanogenesis and constitutes the majority of an astronomical body's hydrosphere."

sea =def. "A lentic water body which is wholly or partly surrounded by land and either connected to or derived from a part of an ocean."