Development of Cenozoic Abyssal Circulation South of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge

• Main Authors: Miller, Kenneth G., Tucholke, Brian E.
• Other Authors: Bott, M. H.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 1983
• Subjects: Arctic; Norwegian Sea; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Reykjanes; Nares; Baffin; Foraminifera*; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Labrador Sea; Nares strait; North Atlantic; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/33362/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/33362/1/Miller.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3485-9_27

Seismic, lithostratigraphic, faunal, and isotopic evidence from the western and northern North Atlantic indicates that formation of northern sources for strongly circulating bottom water began in the late Eocene to early Oligocene. The widely distributed reflector R4 correlates with an unconformity...