Browsing by Subject "Pacific Ocean"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)A comparative biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental analysis was made of the nannofossils in late Neogene sediments from the Gulf of Mexico, the western Caribbean, and the eastern Equatorial Pacific. Species diversity ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)An analysis of the geological and geophysical character of the Rivera-Cocos plate boundary indicates that it consists of three distinct morphotectonic zones. The easternmost zone, delineated by the El Gordo Graben, is a ...
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(2012-07-16)Global climate is controlled by two factors, the amount of heat energy received from the sun (solar insolation) and the way that heat is distributed Earth's surface. Solar insolation varies on timescales of 10s to 100s of ...
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Residency and Movement Patterns of Giant Manta Ray, Mobula birostris, in Bahía de Banderas, Mexico (2022-11-29)Giant manta ray (Mobula birostris) is an endangered species commonly seen in oceanic islands and seamounts; however, some resident populations have been described in highly productive, coastal areas. Bahía de Banderas, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)Using infrared cloud top temperatures observed by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) - West, an attempt is made to quantify the area-averaged rainfall by using the GOES precipitation index (GPI). ...
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(2017-03-07)Reconstructions of overturning circulation from IODP Sites covering 40-65 Ma indicate a fundamentally different overturning mode (referred to herein as the Paleogene mode) compared to the modern. Significantly different ...