Westward bottom currents along the margin of the South Shetland Island Arc

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: Nowlin, W. D., Zenk, Walter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon Press 1988
• Subjects: Drake Passage; Elephant Island; Pacific; Powell Basin; Scotia Sea; Shackleton; Shackleton Fracture Zone; Weddell; Weddell Sea; antartic*
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31974/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31974/1/Zenk_Westward.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/0198-0149(88)90040-4

Existing information is synthesized and new data presented to describe the flow of near-bottom water from the Weddell Sea into the Scotia Sea and westward through Drake Passage along the continental slope. The water characteristics and currents along the northern margins of the South Sandwich Island...