Tracking deep-water flow on Eirik drift over the past 160 kyr: linking deep-water changes to freshwater fluxes

• Main Author: Henderson, Samuel Straker
• Other Authors: Henderson, Samuel Straker (author), Wright, James (chair), Mountain, Gregory (internal member), Miller, Kenneth (internal member), Manley, Patricia (outside member), Rutgers University, Graduate School - New Brunswick
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Geological Sciences; Ocean circulation > North Atlantic Ocean; Fresh water > Arctic regions; Paleontology > Holocene; Paleoceanography > Holocene; Paleoclimatology > Holocene; Submarine geology; Arctic; Glacial Lake; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051018

This dissertation uses surface and deep ocean proxies to understand changes in North Atlantic deep-water production associated with periods of increased freshwater input throughout the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Coring sites on Eirik Drift have long-term sedimentation rates exceeding 15 cm/kyr.,...