INVESTIGATION OF DEEP-WATER CIRCULATION MODES IN THE EARLY CENOZOIC USING NEODYMIUM ISOTOPES FROM FOSSIL FISH DEBRIS

• Other Authors: Thomas, Deborah J
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Fish Teeth; Neodymium; Thermohaline; Southern Ocean; Pacific; Hess; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9573; http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148762

The ocean?s deep-water circulation plays a large role in heat transport across the globe. Circulation in the modern begins where cold, dense surface waters of the North Atlantic and Southern oceans sink to form Atlantic Bottom water. However, this mode did not operate in the geologic past. A growing...