Dynamics of North Atlantic Deep Water masses during the Holocene

• Published in: Paleoceanography
• Main Authors: Hoogakker, B. A. A., Chapman, M. R., McCave, I. N., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Ellison, C. R. W., Hall, Ian Robert, Telford, R. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2011
• Subjects: GC Oceanography; Norwegian Sea; Orphan Knoll; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/30488/; http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011PA002155.shtml; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/30488/1/Hoogakker%202011.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2011PA002155

High resolution flow speed reconstructions of two core sites located on Gardar Drift in the northeast Atlantic Basin and Orphan Knoll in the northwest Atlantic Basin reveal a long-term decrease in flow speed of Northeast Atlantic Deep Water (NEADW) after 6,500 years. Benthic foraminiferal oxygen iso...