RESULTS OF OCEAN WAVE-CONTINENTAL SHELF INTERACTION

Wave Measurements Using Upward - Looking Sonar for Continental Shelf Applications

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Cross–Shelf Exchange Along the Antarctic Continental Margin: Modeling Results

The shelf areas around the Antarctic Continent are locations of dense water formation; part of these water masses ventilate the adjacent deep ocean basins and enter the global thermohaline circulation. This paper takes a look at regional differences of shelf sea–deep ocean exchange in high southern latitudes (mainly between the Weddell and Ross Seas), highlights a few physical mechanisms potent...

Monaco: the shallow continental shelf.

The role of intermediate-depth currents in continental shelf–slope accretion: Canterbury Drifts, SW Pacific Ocean

The Late Oligocene to Recent Canterbury Drifts were deposited in water depths between c. 400 and c. 1500 m by northward-flowing, cold, intermediate-depth water masses: Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW), Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) and their predecessor current flows. Drift accumulation started at c. 24 Ma, fed by terrigenous sediment derived from the newly rising Alpine Fault plate boundar...

A continental shelf perspective of ocean acidification and temperature evolution during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

A rapid and large injection of isotopically light carbon into the ocean-atmosphere reservoirs is signaled by a negative carbon isotope excursion (CIE) at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary ~56 m.y. ago. To better understand the extent of ocean warming and acidification associated with the carbon injection we generated elemental and isotopic records of surface and thermocline planktonic foraminifera ...