Browsing by Subject "Oceanic mixing"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)Since Broecker's (1965) original work, extensive studies have been made on abyssal near-bottom water mixing processes using the radioactive parent-daughter pair radium-226 (Ra) - radon-222 (Rn). One assumption critical to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )Only a few radium measurements have been made in the near-surface (0--600m) Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Published 228Ra data from 1968 and 1973 reveal a significant increase of 228Ra activity in the near-surface Gulf ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The apparently permanent large-scale thermohaline staircases off the northeast coast of South America are thought to indicate vigorous double diffusive mixing due to salt fingering between two important water masses: the ...