A new seismic stratigraphy for the Plio-/Pleistocene at the Agulhas Plateau related to the variability of sediment provenance in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean gateway

• Main Authors: Gruetzner, Jens, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco, Lathika, Nambiyathodi, Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Deutsche Min­er­alo­gis­che Gesell­schaft (DMG) and the Deutsche Geo­lo­gis­che Gesell­schaft – Geo­lo­gis­che Ver­ein­i­gung (DGGV) 2017
• Subjects: antartic*; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45346/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45346/1/A-314.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51520; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51520.d001

The exchange of shallow and deep water masses between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic constitutes an integral inter-ocean link in the global thermohaline circulation. In the gateway south of South Africa long-term changes in deep water flow during the Cenozoic have been initially studied using ref...