Antarctic Circumpolar Deep Water; a Quaternary paleoflow record from the northern Scotia Sea, South Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Journal of Sedimentary Research
• Main Authors: Howe, J. A., Pudsey, C. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Society for Sedimentary Geology 1999
• Subjects: Antarctic; Drake Passage; Scotia Sea; North Scotia Ridge; Falkland Trough; Antarc*; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503526/; https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.69.847

In the northern Scotia Sea, the main pathway of Circumpolar Deep Water (CPDW) flows north to pass through a deep gap in the North Scotia Ridge before turning east into the Falkland Trough. A sediment drift has developed on the seabed since the early-middle Miocene, coincident with the opening of Dra...