SOME HYDRODYNAMIC PROBLEMS FOR A NEPHELOID ZONE.

• Main Author: Ichiye,Takashi
• Other Authors: LAMONT GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY PALISADES N Y
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: (*OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN BOTTOM); (*ATLANTIC OCEAN; MARINE GEOPHYSICS); CORIOLIS EFFECT; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEA WATER; DENSITY; VISCOSITY; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEPHELOID ZONE; Ewing; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0610047; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0610047

A layer of a few hundred meters' thickness with suspended matter near the bottom on the continental slope of the North Atlantic (a nepheloid zone) discovered by Ewing and Thorndike seems to produce bottom currents, because heavier water near the bottom due to suspended matter slides down the sl...