Deep current-controlled sedimentation in the western North Atlantic

• Main Authors: McCave, I. N., Tucholke, Brian E.
• Other Authors: Vogt, Peter R.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of America 1986
• Subjects: Ewing; Norwegian Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceland; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/48838/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/48838/1/McCave.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1130/DNAG-GNA-M.451

With its multiple sources of sediment and bottom water, the North Atlantic experiences more active redistribution of sediments than most other ocean basins. North Atlantic bottom waters originate around Antarctica, in the Norwegian Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Labrador Sea. Sediment is supplied f...