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Hadal zones of the Southwest Pacific and east Indian oceans
The hadal zone (water depths > 6000 m) are unlike the overlying shallower marine regions (bathyal and abyssal) as it does not follow a continuum from...
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Source Regions
In this chapter we consider formation of bottom water in the Weddell Sea and further spreading of bottom water to the north and around the Antarctic...
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Quantitative and Production Characteristics of Phytoplankton in the Northern Part of the Weddell Sea in Summer
AbstractThe spatial distribution of the main parameters of primary productivity is described for the northern part of the Weddell Sea in the...
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General Overview of Abyssal Pathways, and Channels (for Waters of the Antarctic Origin)
This chapter describes a general scheme of the distribution of Antarctic waters in the abyssal of the Atlantic Ocean after propagating from their...
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Bottom Rock Material of Polar Seas: Distribution, Composition, and Genesis
We have summarized the results of studies of bottom rock material in Quaternary sediments in the polar seas of the Arctic, North Atlantic, and...
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Isotope data in Migration Period archaeology: critical review and future directions
Early Mediaeval Archaeology was long influenced by traditional narratives related to so-called Völkerwanderungen . Based on the interpretation of...
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Mountains and Plunging Plates: Subduction Zones
In subduction zones, oceanic crust plunges into the Earth’s mantle, with a chain of explosive volcanoes rising above. Such convergent plate...
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Dynamical downscaling of unforced interannual sea-level variability in the North-West European shelf seas
Variability of Sea-Surface Height (SSH) from ocean dynamic processes is an important component of sea-level change. In this study we dynamically...
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Seiches Around the Shetland Islands
Sea level records have been obtained from a dozen tide gauges deployed around the Shetland Islands, and the high-frequency components of each record...
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Gravity Maps of Antarctic Lithospheric Structure from Remote-Sensing and Seismic Data
Remote-sensing data from altimetry and gravity satellite missions combined with seismic information have been used to investigate the Earth’s...
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Geodynamic Settings of the Formation of Microcontinents, Submerged Plateaus, and Nonvolcanic Islands within Continental Margins
During breakup of the continental lithosphere, partial or complete separation of small continental blocks from the mainland frequently occurs,...
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Tectonics and types of riftogenic basins of the Scotia Sea, South Atlantic
Western, central, and eastern provinces are recognized in the Scotia Sea. They are distinguished by their bottom topography, geophysical...
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Turbulent mixing in the upper ocean of the northwestern Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Turbulent mixing in the upper ocean (30–200 m) of the northwestern Weddell Sea is investigated based on profiles of temperature, salinity and...
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Tectonic Reconstructions of the Southernmost Andes and the Scotia Sea During the Opening of the Drake Passage
Study of the tectonic development of the Scotia Sea region started with basic lithological and structural studies of outcrop geology in Tierra del...
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Erosional and depositional contourite features at the transition between the western Scotia Sea and southern South Atlantic Ocean: links with regional water-mass circulation since the Middle Miocene
The aim of the present study was to characterise the morpho-sedimentary features and main stratigraphic stacking pattern off the Tierra del Fuego...
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Worldwide Marine Fog Occurrence and Climatology
Herein, an analysis is presented of the world’s marine fog distribution based upon the International Comprehensive Ocean-atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)...
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Introduction to the Assessment—Characteristics of the Region
This scene-setting chapter provides the basis for the climate change-related assessments presented in later chapters of this book. It opens with an...
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Petrogenesis of dunites from Gibbs Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
We determined mineral and Sr-Pb isotopic compositions in a dunite complex from Gibbs Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, to understand its...
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Morphostructural analysis and Cenozoic evolution of Elephant Island, Southern Scotia Arc, Antarctica
Elephant Island, located in the vicinity of the present-day active boundary of the South Shetland Block and the Antarctic and Scotia plates, is a...
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Five Polish Seismic Expeditions to the West Antarctica (1979–2007)
The chapter presents results of five Polish expeditions which realised an extensive programme of wide-angle refraction experiments in the northern...