Vigorous deep-sea currents cause global anomaly in sediment accumulation in the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Dutkiewicz, Adriana, Müller, R. Dietmar, Hogg, Andy, Spence, Paul
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; current; Kerguelen Plateau; Macquarie Ridge; disconformity; nepheloid; Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR); Kerguelen; Indian; Spence; Southeast Indian Ridge
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/108616; https://doi.org/10.1130/G38143.1; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/108616/4/01%20Dutkiewicz%20et%20al%20Vigorous%20deep%20sea%20currents%202016.pdf.jpg

The vigorous current systems in the Southern Ocean play a key role in regulating the Earth's oceans and climate, with the record of long-term environmental change mostly contained in deep-sea sediments. However, the well-established occurrence of widespread regional disconformities in the abyss...