La fracture Gibbs et la circulation profonde en Atlantique Nord

• Main Authors: Olivet, Jean-louis, Le Pichon, Xavier, Laubier, Lucien
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Académie des Sciences 1970
• Subjects: Histoire Ifremer; Charcot; Dorsale; La Dorsale; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Norwegian Sea; Mer de Norvège; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1970/publication-4882.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/4882/

The cold waters from the Norwegian Sea are the main source of the underflow system in the northern Atlantic Ocean (10) (pl. 1, fig. 1b). The role of these currents in the formation of large sediment ripples has been demonstrated in some recent studies [(2), (3)]. As in the southern Atlantic Ocean, t...