Late Quaternary Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography of the Amazon Continental Margin, Brazil

• Main Author: Nace, Trevor
• Other Authors: Baker, Paul A
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Geology; Geochemistry; Amazon Basin; equatorial Atlantic; paleoceanography; sedimentology; South America; Nordeste; Methane hydrate
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5556

The tropics are a significant source of heat and moisture export, which drive global circulation patterns, thus it is vital to systematically understand the land, ocean and sedimentological interactions within the tropics. The Brazilian continental margin is an ideal region to characterize the tropi...