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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Atlantis II (Ship : 1963-) Cruise"”.
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The marine geochemistry of methane
In the highly productive coastal surface waters near Walvis Bay, methane is present in concentrations considerably above those which would be predicted from solubility equilibrium with the atmosphere. A one dimensional diffusive model and a one dimensional horizontal advection diffusion model were …
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Shear of small vertical scale observed in the permanent oceanic thermocline
Two shear experiments performed in the permanent thermocline are described and analyzed in this thesis. The first employed dye streak techniques to gain fractional meter vertical resolution. Shears with small vertical scales with frequent reversals in direction and changes of magnitude were …
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Aspects of the biogeochemistry of carbohydrates in aquatic environments
The goal of this thesis is to examine the distribution and diagenesis of carbohydrates in aquatic environments. The following questions are studied: what is the carbohydrate composition of sediment in different environments (e.g., deep-sea oxic; shallow-sea oxic; deep-sea anoxic; fresh-water …
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Inertial oscillations in the Mediterranean
Measurements of ocean currents were made by the author in the Western Mediterranean Sea at five depths for two months during early 1969. In terms of the dominant and persistent presence of inertial oscillations, circularly polarized currents having periods of a half pendulum day, the data are among …
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The evolution of the Indian Ocean triple junction and the finite rotation problem
A major goal in the study of plate tectonics is the acquisition of a knowledge of the history of relative motion among the rigid plates of the earth's lithosphere. The three papers of this thesis contribute to this effort and demonstrate that studies of the stability and evolution of triple …
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Dissolved inorganic and particulate iodine in the oceans
Analytical methods have been developed for the determination of iodate, iodide and particulate iodine in sea water. Iodate is converted to tri-iodide and the absorbance of tri-iodide at 353 nm is measured. The precision of this method is ca. ±3%. Iodide is first separated from most other anions by …
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Seismic constraints on shallow crustal processes at the East Pacific Rise
This thesis is concerned with understanding how oceanic crust is emplaced at mid-ocean ridges. The emphasis is upon fast-spreading ridges, and the use of seismic techniques to image the uppermost several hundred meters of the crust. We present the results of nine on-bottom seismic refraction …
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Nutritional ecology of Agalma okeni and other siphonophores from the epipelagic western North Atlantic Ocean
… veliger larvae, sergestids, mysids, euphausiids, and small fish, though laboratory experiments showed that not all could eat nauplii. Species which could capture Artemia nauplii usually required 2 - 4 hours to digest them, while large prey took 7 - 18 hours to be digested. Since a single …
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Stable isotope geochemistry of nitrogen in marine particulates
Isotope studies of nitrogen and carbon were undertaken to investigate the fate of particulate organic matter (POM) during its residence in the water column and after deposition on the seafloor. The processes focused on were water-column transformations and sedimentary diagenesis. Sampling sites …
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Transient structure in benthic communities : the effects of oxygen stress, burial and high rates of sedimentation
The influence of natural short-term fluctuations in environmental parameters on three components of transient benthic invertebrate community structure: abundance of individuals and species, biomass of individuals, and species diversity, were investigated in this study. The effect of low …
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The hydrothermal alteration of oceanic basalts by seawater
Considerable geological and geophysical evidence now exists to support the hypothesis that seawater circulates through freshly intruded basalt at the mid-ocean ridges. As a consequence of this process, reactions between basalt and seawater take place at elevated temperatures. The mineralogy and …
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The tectonic evolution of the North Central Caribbean plate margin
The results of a detailed geophysical survey are used in conjunction with all available information in a study of the tectonic development of the Cayman Trough and the Greater Antilles Ridge. This development is connected with the relative motions of the North and South Americas and the eastern …
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The interaction of metal ions at the hydrous manganese dioxide-solution interface
An experimental study of the interaction of metal ions with the surface of hydrous manganese dioxide has been completed. The results of these experiments have greatly improved our qualitative understanding of the adsorption mechanism and have also provided a means of testing quantitatively the …
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Chemosynthetic communities in the deep sea : ecological studies
… are also used to explore trophic relationships among a variety of heterotrophic and symbiont-containing fauna at Hanging Gardens on the East Pacific Rise and at Marianas vents. Carbon isotopic measurements suggest that free-living bacteria are important sources of food at both sites. …
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Vertical flux, ecology and dissolution of radiolaria in tropical oceans : implications for the silica cycle
Radiolarians which settle through the oceanic water column were recovered from three stations (western Tropical Atlantic-Station E, central Tropical Pacific-Pi and Panama Basin-PB) using PARLUX sediment traps in moored arrays at several depths. The taxonomic diversities of the radiolarian …
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Transformations of carotenoids in the oceanic water column
In an effort to understand the more general mechanisms and rates of pre-depositional reactions that transform organic matter, the types and relevant time scales of reactions that transform carotenoid pigments in the oceanic water column were studied. Suspended particulate matter collected from …
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Geology of the passive margin off New England
The results of a detailed geophysical investigation conducted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1975 have been used in conjunction with other available information to reconstruct the geologic history of the passive continental margin off New England. Rifting between northeastern North …
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Finestructure and turbulence in the deep ocean
Millimeter scale fluctuations in refractive index recorded with a freely sinking shadowgraph system are correlated with finestructure profiles of temperature, salinity and density and compared to models of ocean turbulence. Images with vertically aligned periodic structure, called bands, are …
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Composition and characteristics of particles in the ocean : evidence for present day resuspension
This study of particulate matter in the water column and the underlying surface sediments verifies the occurrence of local, present-day resuspension in the deep sea. The location of the major portion of this work was the South Iceland Rise, a region influenced by the flow of Norwegian Sea Overflow …
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Mass, heat and nutrient fluxes in the Atlantic Ocean determined by inverse methods
Inverse methods are applied to historical hydrographic data to address two aspects of the general circulation of the Atlantic Ocean. The method allows conservation statements for mass and other properties, along with a variety of other constraints, to be combined in a dynamically consistent way to …
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