VARIATION OF NATURAL LEVEES OF SUBMARINE CANYONS AROUND ANTARCTICA : AN INDICATOR OF ANTARCTIC CONTOUR-CURRENT

Autor: Hideo, KAGAMI, Tetsuya, IWASAKI
Přispěvatelé: Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Kochi University:(Present address) Faculty of Science, Josai University, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Kochi University
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 1991
Zdroj: Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology. 4:108-118
Popis: Natural levees developing at the western side of the submarine canyons on the continental rise around the Antarctic continent are for the first time described quantitatively. It is found that they apparently involve in large benthic flow.The observations presented here suggest that the benthic flow may be caused by a combination of bottom-trapped Rossby waves, the background mean current which most probably consists of Antarctic Bottom Water, and high-frequency tidal flow.
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