Seismic images of contourites forming continental slope terraces at the Argentine Margin: implications for past changes in thermohaline circulation

• Main Authors: Gruetzner, Jens, Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele, Franke, D.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/22479/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.34879

An extensive (> 11000 km) set of high quality seismic reflection profiles from the Argentine continental margin shows a significant contourite system formed by the interaction of northward flowing Antarctic water masses and southward flowing North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). Here, we focus on a s...