Divergent flow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the outer continental shelf of the Amundsen Sea during the late Quaternary" (2007). Related Publications from ANDRILL Affiliates. Paper 7. Summary Understanding the past glacial history of regions undergoing potential rapid deglaciation is essential in order to estimate the possible threat of sea level rise. Recently acquired data have given new...

Valentine and Moores [Valentine JW, Moores EM (1970) Nature 228:657-659] hypothesized that plate tectonics regulates global biodiversity by changing the geographic arrangement of continental crust, but the data required to fully test the hypothesis were not available. Here, we use a global database of marine animal fossil occurrences and a paleogeographic reconstruction model to test the hypoth...

High-resolution multi-beam bathymetry, 3D and 2D seismic reflection profiles from the South China Sea are used to investigate the morphology, characteristics, origin and implications to petroleum systems of recurrent slope failure in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea. Seven Late Miocene-Holocene mass-transport deposits (MTDs) and numerous submarine canyons were identified on the ...

The Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) advanced onto the continental shelf during the last glacial period. While deglacial records for when the GrIS withdrew onto the modern coastline are relatively abundant, the timing of early GrIS retreat on the shelf is poorly constrained. Here we use planktic foraminiferal d18O, sediment grain size, sedimentation rates, and 14C ages in southeastern Davis Strait co...

After being excluded from the development of early law sea due to colonialism, Africa has become quite active in contemporary ever since various African States gained independence colonial rule. Unfortunately, because many states had not achieved during UNCLOS I and II, outcomes these Conferences did include significant contributions Africa. However, by time III, a number members international ...

[1] Radiocarbon levels in annual plants provide a means to map out regional and continental-scale fossil fuel plumes in surface air. We collected corn (Zea mays) across North America during the summer of 2004. Plants from mountain regions of western North America showed the smallest influence of fossil fuel-derived CO2 with a mean D C of 66.3% ±1.7%. Plants from eastern North America and from t...

Bass Strait is an area of shallow continental shelf located between Victoria and Tasmania connecting the south-east Indian Ocean with the Tasman Sea (Figure 1). The region supports a diverse marine ecosystem with a wide range of habitats. The submerged temperate rocky reefs and canyons contain high species biodiversity with a large proportion being endemic to the area [3]. Marine activities of ...

The edge of the North West European Shelf (NWES) is characterised by a steep continental slope and a northward flowing slope current. These topographic/hydrographic features separate oceanic water and shelf water masses hence potentially separate phytoplankton communities. The slope current may facilitate the advective transport of phytoplankton, with mixing at the shelf edge supporting nutrien...

Until now, continental shelf environments have been monitored with highly localized line-transect methods from slow-moving research vessels. These methods significantly undersample fish populations in time and space, leaving an incomplete and ambiguous record of abundance and behavior. We show that fish populations in continental shelf environments can be instantaneously imaged over thousands o...