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The circulation of cold, deep Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is one of the controlling factors in Earth’s climate. Today, 40 % of this water enters the world ocean through the Southwest Pacific Gateway as a thermohaline driven Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC). South of 46°S, the DWBC is coupled w...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.411.5276 2023-05-15T13:55:40+02:00 Southwest Pacific GatewayLEG 181 SOUTHWEST PACIFIC GATEWAY: Paleohydrography of the Deep Pacific Source Modified by R. Carter from Proposal 441-Rev Submitted By: I. N. Mccave The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.411.5276 http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/tnotes/tn20-5/181.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.411.5276 http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/tnotes/tn20-5/181.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/tnotes/tn20-5/181.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T03:21:59Z The circulation of cold, deep Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is one of the controlling factors in Earth’s climate. Today, 40 % of this water enters the world ocean through the Southwest Pacific Gateway as a thermohaline driven Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC). South of 46°S, the DWBC is coupled with the wind-driven Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). Understanding the evolution of the Pacific DWBC is fundamental to understanding world oceanic and climatic histories. The ACC-DWBC system has evolved since the late Oligocene (32-20 Ma), when plate movements created the first deep-water oceanic gaps south of Australia and South America. An excellent stratigraphic record of these events, and of the development of the modern ACC-DWBC, occurs in sediment drifts east of the New Zealand microcontinental plateau. Seven Southwest Pacific drill sites are proposed to reconstruct the stratigraphy, paleohydrography, and dynamics of the DWBC and related water masses. The proposed sites comprise a transect of water depths from 320 m to 4460 m, and span a latitudinal range from 39°S to 51°S. Only one previous hydraulic piston core site is located in this large region (Deep Sea Drilling Project [DSDP] Site 594), and earlier DSDP drilling (Sites 275-276) occurred at sites where Neogene sediment is largely missing due to DWBC erosion. Consequently, our knowledge of Southwest Pacific ocean history, and of the development of the ACC-DWBC system, is extremely poor. Coring during Leg 181 will provide the sedimentary sequences needed to study a range of high-priority problems in Southern Ocean Neogene paleohydrography, sedimentology, paleoclimatology, and micropaleontology. Text Antarc* Antarctic Southern Ocean Unknown Antarctic New Zealand Pacific Southern Ocean |
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The circulation of cold, deep Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is one of the controlling factors in Earth’s climate. Today, 40 % of this water enters the world ocean through the Southwest Pacific Gateway as a thermohaline driven Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC). South of 46°S, the DWBC is coupled with the wind-driven Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). Understanding the evolution of the Pacific DWBC is fundamental to understanding world oceanic and climatic histories. The ACC-DWBC system has evolved since the late Oligocene (32-20 Ma), when plate movements created the first deep-water oceanic gaps south of Australia and South America. An excellent stratigraphic record of these events, and of the development of the modern ACC-DWBC, occurs in sediment drifts east of the New Zealand microcontinental plateau. Seven Southwest Pacific drill sites are proposed to reconstruct the stratigraphy, paleohydrography, and dynamics of the DWBC and related water masses. The proposed sites comprise a transect of water depths from 320 m to 4460 m, and span a latitudinal range from 39°S to 51°S. Only one previous hydraulic piston core site is located in this large region (Deep Sea Drilling Project [DSDP] Site 594), and earlier DSDP drilling (Sites 275-276) occurred at sites where Neogene sediment is largely missing due to DWBC erosion. Consequently, our knowledge of Southwest Pacific ocean history, and of the development of the ACC-DWBC system, is extremely poor. Coring during Leg 181 will provide the sedimentary sequences needed to study a range of high-priority problems in Southern Ocean Neogene paleohydrography, sedimentology, paleoclimatology, and micropaleontology. |
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