Structure and spreading of Antarctic bottom waters in oceanic basins adjacent to Antarctica

• Main Author: Schlemmer, Frederick Charles
• Other Authors: Nowlin, Worth D.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Texas A&M University. Libraries 1978
• Subjects: Ocean bottom; Sea-floor spreading; Submarine topography; Oceanography; 1978 Dissertation S341; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Ross Sea; Balleny Islands; Pacific; Indian; Weddell; Southeast Pacific Basin; Atlantic-Indian Basin; South Indian Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-638480

Vita. Descriptions of the characteristic relations, vertical structure and lateral spreading of Antarctic Bottom Water within the four major oceanic basins adjacent to Antarctica are presented. Three major layers of Antarctic Bottom Water are identified. Boundaries between these layers occur near th...