Neogene modifications of circulation in the northeastern African – Southern Ocean gateway

• Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
• Main Authors: Fischer, Maximilian, Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48523/; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GC007644; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.d148caaf-c886-439c-8300-ccc370f3797d

In the African – Southern Ocean gateway several water masses originating in the Atlantic, Indian and Southern oceans meet and mix. As a consequence, the gateway is crucial for the maintenance of the global thermohaline circulation. Newly acquired multichannel seismic reflection data collected across...