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A total of 29 vertical Ra profiles has been measured from the Pacific as part of the GEOSECS program. These profiles are located on an east-west section along ~30°N, and a north-south section, close to the western boundary of the major basins in the western Pacific. Profiles from the northeast Pacific show a deep Ra maximum, with an excess concentration relative to the potential temperature and salinity. This maximum extends westward in the direction with decreasing Ra content, and finally vanishes completely in the northwest Pacific near Japan.Ra profiles along the western boundary show a mid-depth maximum around 3 km and a near-bottom minimum due to southward intrusion of the high-Ra Pacific Deep Water and a northward spreading of the low-Ra Antarctic Bottom Water. The contrast between the maximum and the minimum intensifies toward the south, where the benthic front has clearly separated these two water masses. Ra is thus a useful tracer for the studies of oceanic mixing and circulation in the Pacific. 相似文献
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210Pb and 226Ra profiles have been measured at five GEOSECS stations in the Circumpolar region. These profiles show that 226Ra is quite uniformly distributed throughout the Circumpolar region, with slightly lower activities in surface waters, while 210Pb varies with depth as well as location or area. There is a subsurface 210Pb maximum which matches the oxygen minimum in depth and roughly correlates with the temperature and salinity maxima. This 210Pb maximum has its highest concentrations in the Atlantic sector and appears to originate near the South Sandwich Islands northeast of the Weddell Sea. Concentrations in this maximum decrease toward the Indian Ocean sector and then become fairly constant along the easterly Circumpolar Current.Relative to 226Ra, the activity of 210Pb is deficient in the entire water column of the Circumpolar waters. The deficiency increases from the depth of the 210Pb maximum toward the bottom, and the 210Pb/ 226Ra activity ratio is lowest in the Antarctic Bottom Water, indicating a rapid removal of Pb by particulate scavenging in the bottom layer and/or a short mean residence time of the Antarctic Bottom Water in the Circumpolar region. 226Ra is essentially linearly correlated with silica and barium in the Circumpolar waters. However, close examination of the vertical profiles reveals that Ba and Si are more variable than 226Ra in this region. 相似文献
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Radium-barium-silica relationships are examined in various regions of the Pacific. Ra, Ba and Si are not linearly correlated except in the Circumpolar region. From surface water to the intermediate water, Ra usually increases linearly with Ba and Si. In the North Pacific where there is a Ra excess in the deep water, both the Ra-Ba and Ra-Si diagrams show curves concave upward with an increasing slope. The relationships are further complicated by a deep gentle Ba maximum and a broad mid-depth Si maximum.In the western boundary where the Antarctic Bottom Water and Pacific Deep Water are separated by the benthic front, the Ra-Ba and Ra-Si plots show “hooks” of various size and shape caused by a discordance in the depths of the Ra, Ba and Si maxima. The hook becomes smaller toward the south and flips from counterclockwise to clockwise in the southern basin.A two-dimensional horizontal model with a geostrophic circulation pattern is employed to calculate Ra distribution in the deep water with a constant upwelling rate but a variable mean input rate for Ra. The mean input rate or flux F is the sum of the in-situ production rate J by particulate dissolution in the water column and the bottom flux Qb. The global mean flux F needed to balance the radiodecay in a steady-state distribution is used as a reference for discussion. It is found that an F value set at1.5 × F fits the observed data in the deep Atlantic. The F value needs to be about2.7 × F in order to produce a comparable distribution in the deep Pacific. These model calculations indicate that a Ra source is required in the northeast Pacific. It appears that no unique F can produce a global Ra distribution in deep water comparable to both the Atlantic and Pacific observations. This is also true within the Pacific Ocean itself because of the large Ra excess observed in the northeast Pacific. Thus the Ra input rate is quite variable and increases by a factor of two from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This probably reflects the non-uniformity of the bottom flux Qb rather than that of the in-situ production J in the world oceans. 相似文献
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The Arctic Ocean, the northernmost parts of the earth, covers the total surface area of 14.79 million square kilometers and amounts to only about 4% of global ocean surface area. Although its surface area is the smallest in the four major oceans, the Arct… 相似文献
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Four vertical Ra profiles have been measured across the East Pacific Rise (EPR) from Callao to Tahiti. These profiles show that Ra in the deep water (below 2 km depth) increases toward the EPR. However, this increase does not necessarily indicate a Ra source on the EPR. The increase from Tahiti toward the EPR reflects the general trend of the Pacific Ra distribution. The decrease from the EPR eastward to the Peru Basin is probably due to the continental effect with higher sedimentation rates.The hydrography, especially potential temperature and oxygen, indicates significant differences below about 3 km depth between the east and west flanks of the EPR indicating the effect of the cold bottom water to the west of the EPR. The benthic front is identified at 3.9 km depth at the westernmost station near Tahiti. Silicate and salinity data are by no means unique and reflect a complicated local circulation and mixing pattern with a minor intrusion of the Antarctic Bottom Water from the south into the Peru Basin.The θ-Ra and Ra-Si relationships both indicate an enrichment of Ra in the deep water below 2 km depth probably due to input from the underlying sediments. Above 2 km depth, Ra covaries almost linearly with θ as well as Si, mimicking a stable conservative property. This suggests that the radiodecay rate is nearly balanced by the input rate within the water column between 1 and 2 km depth in which θ is linearly correlated with S.Simple vertical model calculations show that the in-situ production of Ra by particulate dissolution in the deep water is negligible within a reasonable range of upwelling rates from 2 to 12 m/yr. Thus the Ra profiles show a net decay effect and so the θ-Ra relations are not linear in the deep water. In fact, the composite θ-Ra plots show a break at 25 dpm/100 kg (at 2 km depth) rather than a smooth curve, while theθ- S plots are essentially linear. A maximum Ra production rate of about 8 × 10 ?3 (dpm/100 kg) yr ?1 is obtained from all the profiles with minimum upwelling rates between 0.7 and 3.5 m/yr. 相似文献
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Radium-226 ( 226Ra) activities were measured in the surface water samples collected from the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea during the First
Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition. The results showed that 226Ra concentrations in the surface water ranged from 0.28 to 1.56 Bq/m 3 with an average of 0.76 Bq/m 3 in the Arctic Ocean, and from 0.25 to 1.26 Bq/m 3 with an average of 0.71 Bq/m 3 in the Bering Sea. The values were obviously lower than those from open oceans in middle and low latitudes, indicating that
the study area may be partly influenced by sea ice meltwater. In the Bering Sea, 226Ra in the surface water decreased northward, probably as a result of the exchange between the 226Ra-deficient sea ice meltwater and the 226Ra-rich Pacific water. In the Arctic Ocean, 226Ra in the surface water increased northward and eastward. This spatial distribution of 226Ra reflected the variation of the 226Ra-enriched river component in the water mass of the Arctic Ocean. The vertical profiles of 226Ra in the Canadian Basin showed a concentration maximum at 200 m, which could be attributed to the inputs of the Pacific water
or/and the bottom shelf water with high 226Ra concentration. This conclusion was consistent with the results from 2H, 18O tracers. 相似文献
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Measurements of 231Pa, 230Th and 232Th concentrations have been made on five water-column profiles along the western margin of the Madagascar and Mascarene Basins in the southern Indian Ocean. These measurements help to fill a significant gap in the global coverage of water-column 232Th, 230Th and 231Pa data. 232Th concentrations vary, but generally increase with depth, suggesting higher particle loading in deeper waters, and the presence of a significant dissolved fraction of 232Th. 230Th concentrations increase with depth, and profiles are similar to the average of existing data from other regions. 231Pa concentrations, on the other hand, show significant depth structure, apparently reflecting the various water masses sampled at this location. The modified remnants of North Atlantic Deep Water are found at a depth of ≈ 2000 m and exhibit elevated 231Pa concentrations exported from the South Atlantic. Antarctic Intermediate and Bottom Waters have lower 231Pa, probably due to scavenging onto opal particles during transit from the Southern Ocean. The differences between water masses raises a question: which water mass is important in controlling the 231Pa/ 230Th ratio in underlying sediments? A simple one-dimensional model is used to demonstrate that the 230Th and 231Pa exported to sea-floor sediments last equilibrates with waters close to the seafloor (within ≈ 1000 m), rather than averaging the whole water column. These findings suggest that 231Pa xs/ 230Th xs in sediments provides information primarily about deep-water masses. In this region, sedimentary records will therefore provide information about the past flow of Antarctic Bottom Water into the Indian Ocean. Interpretation of data from other regions, such as the North Atlantic where this proxy has most successfully been applied, requires careful consideration of regional oceanography and knowledge of the composition of the water masses being investigated. 相似文献
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Vertical profiles of dissolved rare earth elements (REEs) were obtained in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The REE concentrations at various depths in the Bay of Bengal are the highest in the Indian Ocean. This is attributable ultimately to the large outflow of the Ganges–Brahmaputra and Irrawaddy rivers, but the dissolved REE flux to surface waters alone cannot explain the large and near-constant REE enrichment throughout the entire water column. The underlying fan sediments serve as not a source but a sink for dissolved REE(III)s. Absence of excess 228Ra in the deep waters suggests that lateral input of dissolved REEs from slope sediments is also small in these regions. Partial (<0.3%) dissolution of detrital particles, which are carried by the rivers and lateral surface currents and subsequently settle through the water column, appears to be a predominant source for the dissolved REEs. Vertical profiles showing an almost linear increase with depth are common features for the light and middle REEs everywhere, but their concentration levels are variable from basin to basin and from element to element. This suggests that their oceanic distributions respond quickly to the variation of particle flux and its REE composition through reversible exchange equilibrium with suspended and sinking particles much like the case for Th. The relative importance of the vertical geochemical processes of reversible scavenging over the horizontal basin-scale ocean circulation with passive regeneration like nutrients decreases systematically from the light to the heavy REEs. Using a model, the mean oceanic residence times of REEs in the Bay of Bengal are estimated to range from 37 years for Ce to 140–1510 years for the strictly trivalent REEs. In the deep water of the Andaman Sea, isolated from the Bay of Bengal by the Andaman–Nicobar Ridge (maximum sill depth of ∼1800 m), the REE concentrations are almost uniform presumably due to rapid vertical mixing. The REE(III) concentrations are similar to that of ∼1250 m depth water in the Bay of Bengal, consistent with other oceanographic properties. However, the REE composition of the deep water appears to be altered slightly by preferential scavenging of the light REE(III) at the bottom boundary of the basin. 相似文献
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An analysis of the relationship between the bathymetry and the gravity field has been carried out both in the frequency domain (admittance technique) and in the space domain over the Del Cano Rise and the Crozet Bank (southern Indian Ocean). A bathymetric map, contoured from original shipboard data and a geoid anomaly map, computed from a merged set of SEASAT and GEOS3 data were used. The inversion of admittances for water depth, crustal thickness, crustal density and elastic plate thickness shows that the isostatic response of the lithosphere supporting the Del Cano Rise differs very much from that of the one situated beneath the Crozet Bank. The Del Cano Rise appears to have been formed near the active Southwest Indian Ridge before Early Eocene and is locally supported by a thickened crust. Shallow thermal processes contribute to the present topography of the Crozet Bank, emplaced further away from the Southeast Indian Ridge on older crust. 相似文献
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226Ra data on eleven vertical profiles taken during the GEOSECS program from the Antarctic Ocean and its vicinity in both the Atlantic and the Pacific are presented. Replicate measurements were made on each sample using the Rn-emanation method. The precision (1 σ) based on triplicate analyses averages about ±2.5%. Waters all around the Antarctic continent below 2 km depth appear to exhibit a uniform 226Ra concentration of 21.5 ± 1dpm/100kg, except perhaps locally such as the Ross Sea and the Drake Passage where small variations may be present. Higher in the water column, the 226Ra contents decrease toward the surface with gradients which vary as a function of the influence exerted by the Antarctic Convergence. Across this oceanic front, a north-to-south increase of 226Ra occurs (the increase being the largest near the surface: from 8 to 18 dpm/100 kg), reflecting the combining effect of deep-water upwelling and meridional water mixing. The core layer of the Antarctic Intermediate Water contains about 14 dpm/100 kg of 226Ra and that of the Circumpolar Intermediate Water (O 2 minimum and local T maximum) about 18 dpm/100 kg. To a first approximation, 226Ra covaries with Si in the circumpolar waters. 相似文献
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To investigate why the Red Sea water overflows less in summer and more in winter, we have developed a locally high-resolution global OGCM with transposed poles in the Arabian peninsula and India. Based on a series of sensitivity experiments with different sets of idealized atmospheric forcing, the present study shows that the summer cessation of the strait outflow is remotely induced by the monsoonal wind over the Indian Ocean, in particular that over the western Arabian Sea. During the southwest monsoon (May–September), thermocline in the Gulf of Aden shoals as a result of coastal Ekman upwelling induced by the predominantly northeastward wind in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. Because this shoaling is maximum during the southwest summer monsoon, the Red Sea water is blocked at the Bab el Mandeb Strait by upwelling of the intermediate water of the Gulf of Aden in late summer. The simulation also shows the three-dimensional evolution of the Red Sea water tongue at the mid-depths in the Gulf of Aden. While the tongue meanders, the discharged Red Sea outflow water (RSOW) (incoming Indian Ocean intermediate water (IOIW)) is always characterized by anticyclonic (cyclonic) vorticity, as suggested from the potential vorticity difference. 相似文献
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Geophysical data contiguous with the Narmada-Son lineament suggests its possible extension westward into the Arabian Sea and eastward up to the Shillong Plateau. The airborne magnetic anomaly map of the north Arabian Sea delineates a linear trend of magnetic anomalies in line with the Narmada-Son lineament. This group of magnetic anomalies, spreading over 20°N to 22°N, starts near the west coast of India at 21°N, 69°30′E and extends to the Murray Ridge. The tectonic feature represented by this group of magnetic anomalies is buried by a thick layer of sediments. This westward extension of the lineament is also reflected in the average Bouguer gravity anomaly map of the Indian Ocean. Towards the east, the gravity and magnetic data delineate a subsurface linear tectonic feature which extends in line with this lineament to the eastern syntaxial bend. These various geophysical signatures further suggest the lineament to be a typical rift-like structure. The tectonic implications of the lineament, which extends from the western to the eastern margins of the Indian plate, is discussed. 相似文献
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226Ra and 210Pb were measured in sections and profiles collected in the Weddell Sea during the International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition in 1973. The results can be correlated with the circulation and mixing schemes deduced from hydrographic observations. Along the surface cyclonic gyre the Ra activities are fairly uniform at about 17 dpm/100 kg, quite similar to those of the Circumpolar surface water south of the Antarctic Convergence. The 210Pb activities in the northern flank of the gyre, probably influenced by the high 210Pb-bearing Circumpolar Deep Water in the north, are as high as 12 dpm/100 kg. At the central gyre and its southern flank, the surface water 210Pb activities are about 7 dpm/100 kg. The warmer surface water at the central gyre has a Ra activity of about 19 dpm/100 kg, slightly higher than the colder surface water at the flanks. Thus lower 210Pb/ 226Ra activity ratios are observed in the central gyre, and higher ratios in its flanks. Similar relationships between Ra and Pb are noted in the Weddell Sea Bottom Water (WSBW): lower Pb associated with higher Ra in the center; higher Pb with slightly lower Ra in the flanks.Vertical profiles along the cyclonic gyre show lower Ra and Pb activities in the southwestern Weddell Basin where lower temperature and lower silicate are observed. Similar to Ba, both Ra and Si are non-conservative in the Weddell Sea, with significant input from the bottom sediments and particulate dissolution during subsurface mixing.Each water mass or type in the Weddell Sea is well characterized by its Ra content, but not well by its Pb content. Ra and Si are crudely correlated with a slope of about 7 × 10 ?4 dpm Ra per μmole of Si. The fact that the WSBW values fall on the slope suggests that the net input rate for Ra (corrected for the decay rate) is proportional to that of Si. The linear extrapolation to zero Si gives a Ra value of 13 dpm/100 kg. These relationships are quite similar to those observed in the Circumpolar waters. 相似文献
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We determined 2D group velocity distribution of Rayleigh waves at periods of 20-150 s in the Antarctic region using a tomographic inversion technique. The data are recorded by both permanent networks and temporary arrays. In East Antarctica the velocities are high at periods of 90-150 s, suggesting that the root of East Antarctica is very deep. The velocities in West Antarctica are low at all periods, which may be related to the volcanic activity and the West Antarctic Rift System. Low velocity anomalies appear at periods of 40-140 s along the Southeastern Indian Ridge and the western part of the Pacific Antarctic Ridge. The velocities are only slightly low around the Atlantic Indian Ridge, Southwestern Indian Ridge, and the eastern part of the Pacific Antarctic Ridge, where the spreading rates are small. Around two hotspots, the Mount Erebus and Balleny Islands, the velocity is low at periods of 50-150 s. 相似文献
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During the seymama expedition of the French R/V Marion Dufresne in the equatorial Indian Ocean, we retrieved giant piston cores (30–53 m long) as part of a high resolution palaeo-oceanographic and stratigraphic study of Pliocene-Pleistocene pelagic carbonates. Major changes in the compressional wave (P wave) velocity profiles recorded in these cores appear to be correlatable from the Madingley Rise (western equatorial Indian Ocean) to the southeast of the Maldives archipelago (central equatorial Indian Ocean), about 1700 km away, thus emphasizing the stratigraphic potential of acoustic records in uncemented pelagic carbonates. As expected in deep-sea carbonate deposits, changes in P-wave velocity parallel past changes in coarse fraction content (> 63 μm). Changes in grain size appear to be mainly controlled by carbonate dissolution, as evidenced by a strong relationship between sand content and a foraminifer preservation index. Thus, in uncemented pelagic carbonates, P-wave velocities provide quick and easy to obtain qualitative information on carbonate dissolution pulses. As diagenesis takes place, however, compaction and cementation change the dynamic rigidity (μ) of the sediments and may conceal the original grain size signal. Due to the strong positive relationship between P-wave velocity and coarse fraction content in uncemented pelagic carbonates, P-wave velocity profiles can be tied to a precise chronologic framework by correlating them to the composite grain size index curve (CGSI) established by Bassinot et al. for the tropical Indian Ocean [1,2]. This composite curve has been constructed by stacking the normalized coarse fraction records from ODP Site 722 (Owen Ridge, Arabian Sea [3]) and ODP Site 758 (Ninetyeast Ridge, central equatorial Indian Ocean [4]). In these two sites, detailed δ18O records provide the basis for precise inter-site correlations. They ensure the accuracy of the stacking procedure, which tends to reduce most of the local grain size signals and enhances the regional signal related to carbonate dissolution pulses [1,2]. A detailed chronostratigraphy of CGSI curve was developed by correlating the δ18O records of Sites 722 and 758 to the orbital chronology recently developed from ODP Site 677 [5]. The CGSI may be used as a reference curve for developing a sonostratigraphy in the tropical Indian Ocean. 相似文献
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—Rayleigh and Love waves generated by sixteen earthquakes which occurred in the Indian Ocean and were recorded at 13 WWSSN stations of Asia, Africa and Australia are used to determine the moment tensor solution of these earthquakes. A combination of thrust and strike-slip faulting is obtained for earthquakes occurring in the Bay of Bengal. Thrust, strike slip or normal faulting (or either of the combination) is obtained for earthquakes occurring in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. The resultant compressive and tensional stress directions are estimated from more than 300 centroid moment tensor (CMT) solution of earthquakes occurring in different parts of the Indian Ocean. The resultant compressive stress directions are changing from north-south to east-west and the resultant tensional stress directions from east-west to north-south in different parts of the Indian Ocean. The results infer the counterclockwise movement of the region (0°–33°S and 64°E–94°E), stretching from the Rodriguez triple junction to the intense deformation zone of the central Indian Ocean and the formation of a new subduction zone (island arc) beneath the intense deformation zone of the central Indian Ocean and another at the southern part of the central Indian basin. The compressive stress direction is along the ridge axis and the extensional stress manifests across the ridge axis. The north-south to northeast-south west compression and east-west to northwest-southeast extension in the Indian Ocean suggest the northward underthrusting of the Indian plate beneath the Eurasian plate and the subduction beneath the Sunda arc region in the eastern part. The focal depth of earthquakes is estimated to be shallow, varying from 4 to 20 km and increasing gradually in the age of the oceanic lithosphere with the focal depth of earthquakes in the Indian Ocean. 相似文献
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The barrier layer (BL) — a salinity stratification embedded in the upper warm layer — is a common feature of the tropical oceans. In the northern Indian Ocean, it has the potential to significantly alter the air–sea interactions. In the present paper, we investigate the spatio-temporal structure of BL in the Arabian Sea during summer monsoon. This season is indeed a key component of the Asian climate. Based on a comprehensive dataset of Conductivity–Temperature–Depth (CTD) and Argo in situ hydrographic profiles, we find that a BL exists in the central Arabian Sea during summer. However, it is highly heterogeneous in space, and intermittent, with scales of about ~100 km or less and a couple of weeks. The BL patterns appear to be closely associated to the salinity front separating two water masses (Arabian Sea High Salinity Water in the Northern and Eastern part of the basin, fresher Bay of Bengal Water to the south and to the west). An ocean general circulation model is used to infer the formation mechanism of the BL. It appears that thick (more than 40 m) BL patterns are formed at the salinity front by subduction of the saltier water mass under the fresher one in an area of relatively uniform temperature. Those thick BL events, with variable position and timing, result in a broader envelope of thinner BL in climatological conditions. However, the individual patterns of BL are probably too much short-lived to significantly affect the monsoonal air–sea interactions. 相似文献
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While ocean circulation is driven by the formation of deep water in the North Atlantic and the Circum-Antarctic, the role of southern-sourced deep water formation in climate change is poorly understood. Here we address the balance of northern- and southern-sourced waters in the South Atlantic through the last glacial period using neodymium isotope ratios of authigenic ferromanganese oxides in thirteen deep sea cores from throughout the South Atlantic. The data indicate that northern-sourced water did not reach the Southern Ocean during the late glacial, and was replaced by southern-derived intermediate and deep waters. The high-resolution neodymium isotope record (~ 300 yr sample spacing) from two spliced deep Cape Basin sites indicates that over the last glacial period northern-sourced water mass export to the Southern Ocean was stronger during the major Greenland millennial warming intervals (and Southern Hemisphere cool periods), and particularly during the major interstadials 8, 12, and 14. Northern-sourced water mass export was weaker during Greenland stadials and reached minima during Heinrich Events. The benthic foraminiferal carbon isotopes in the same Cape Basin core reflect a partial control by Southern Hemisphere climate changes and indicate that deep water formation and ventilation occurred in the Southern Ocean during major Greenland cooling intervals (stadials). Together, neodymium isotopes and benthic carbon isotopes provide new information about water mass sourcing and circulation in deep Southern Ocean waters during rapid glacial climate changes. Combining carbon and neodymium isotopes can be used to monitor the relative proportion of northern- and southern-sourced waters in the Cape Basin to gain insight into the processes which control the carbon isotopic composition of deep waters. In this study we show that deep water formation and circulation was more important than biological productivity and nutrient regeneration changes for controlling the carbon isotope chemistry of Antarctic Bottom Water during millennial-scale glacial climate cycles. This observation also lends support to the hypothesis that ocean circulation is linked to interhemispheric climate changes on short timescales, and that ventilation in the glacial ocean rapidly switched between the northern and Southern Hemisphere on millennial timescales. 相似文献
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在海上实施三维地震探测过程中,人工震源枪阵中心与船上GPS的距离及地震探测作业中的船行方向造成炮点实际位置与预设位置有一定偏差;自由落体投放的OBS由于海流的影响会偏离原定设计位置(投放点),因此,炮点与海底地震仪(OBS)的位置校正是三维地震结构研究中的基本环节.本文利用艏向信息校正了炮点位置;采用蒙特卡洛和最小二乘法方法对海底地震仪的位置进行了校正,并探讨了直达水波曲线特征.结果表明 OBS位置一般偏离设计点1 km左右,其误差范围在20 m以内,校正后的OBS记录剖面展示了真实的记录情况.该研究结果为下一步西南印度洋的三维层析成像研究提供了坚实数据基础,同时为今后南海的三维深部地壳结构探测提供经验与借鉴. 相似文献
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Conventional K-Ar and 40Ar/ 39Ar total-fusion and incremental-heating ages from basalts recovered from the Ninetyeast Ridge confirm earlier indication from paleontology of basal sediments that basement crystallization ages increase systematically from south to north. A rate of migration of volcanism of 9.4 ± 0.3 cm/yr best fits the age-distance relationship determined from these basalts. The geometry, distribution of ages, paleomagnetism and geochemistry are most compatible with an origin of the Ninetyeast Ridge by northward movement of the Indian plate over a hotspot near Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean, from mid-Cretaceous to Early Oligocene time. The Ninetyeast Ridge and nearly parallel Chagos-Laccadive Ridge provide an absolute frame of reference for the reconstruction of the eastern Indian Ocean. 相似文献
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