Quaternary Tephrochronology of the Scotia Sea and Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

• Main Author: Moreton, Steven G.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: GC Oceanography; Bellingshausen Sea; Deception Island; Jane Basin; Scotia Sea; South Shetland Islands; Southern Ocean; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/4865/; https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/4865/1/Moreton%20phd.pdf

The Southern Ocean is a region of the world's ocean which is fundamental to the generation of cold deep ocean water which drives the global thermo-haline circulation. Previous investigations of deep-sea sediment cores south of the Polar Front have been significantly constrained by the lack of a...