Seismic stratigraphy of the Eirik Drift, southern Greenland margin: tracking North Atlantic bottom water flow since the Eocene ...
Eirik Drift is a detached giant elongated drift which extends a total length of 360 km, located off the southern margin of Greenland, approximately 100 km south of Cape Farewell, Greenland in the North Atlantic Ocean. Eirik Drift is controlled by the influence of deep contour currents resulting from...
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7282/t3-5xh7-s385 https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/71497 |
| Summary: | Eirik Drift is a detached giant elongated drift which extends a total length of 360 km, located off the southern margin of Greenland, approximately 100 km south of Cape Farewell, Greenland in the North Atlantic Ocean. Eirik Drift is controlled by the influence of deep contour currents resulting from the movement of the deep Western Boundary Undercurrent (WBUC). The WBUC is a dominant constituent of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW), the lower limb of the global thermohaline circulation (THC) system, which transports sediments, nutrients, and temperature regimes across the Atlantic Ocean. Understanding the origins, distribution, and development of Eirik Drift is critical to reliably placing proxy data into a larger context of sedimentation, ocean circulation, global climate and using these histories as analogs of recent changes in global climate. This study examined the seismic stratigraphy of Eirik Drift using multi-channel seismic (MCS) profiles collected in the summer of 2002 during cruise KN166-14 of the ... |
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