Bidecadal sea level modes in the North and South Atlantic Oceans

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (22) ◽  
pp. 5926-5931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcio L. Vianna ◽  
Viviane V. Menezes
1992 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 324-324
Author(s):  
Keith Young

In northeastern Chihuahua and Trans-Pecos Texas, in the early Late Albian zone of Hysteroceras varicosum occurs the Boeseites romeri (Haas) fauna with B. romeri (Hass), B. perarmata (Hass), B. aff. barbouri (Haas), B. cf. howelli (Haas), B.proteus (Haas), Prohysteroceras cf. P. hanhaense Haas, Elobiceras sp., and Dipoloceras (?) sp. B. perarmata has also been collected at Cerro Mercado, near Monclova, Coahuila. Haas originally described this fauna from Angola. Now, from rocks in the same zone in the Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mexico, there is a form related to if not identical with Hysteroceras famelicum Van Hoepen, also originally described from Angola and also from the zone of Hysteroceras varicosum.These fossils are known only from southern North America and Angola; they have not been described from the European Tethys. In 1984 I suggested that during the highstand of sea level of the early Late Albian (Hysteroceras varicosum zone) these ammonites migrated from Angola to Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas via an epeiric seaway extending across the sag between South America and Africa proposed by Kennedy and Cooper. This would be twelve to fifteen million years prior to an oceanic connection between the North and South Atlantic.I would now ask, can similar epeiric seas and highstands of sea level explain the migration of successive European, Tethyan, Jurassic ammonite faunas down the Mozambique Channel and around the horn of Africa into the Neuquen Basin of Argentina before Africa and Antarctica separated, as proposed by Spath.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed D. Ibrahim

North and South Atlantic lateral volume exchange is a key component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) embedded in Earth’s climate. Northward AMOC heat transport within this exchange mitigates the large heat loss to the atmosphere in the northern North Atlantic. Because of inadequate climate data, observational basin-scale studies of net interbasin exchange between the North and South Atlantic have been limited. Here ten independent climate datasets, five satellite-derived and five analyses, are synthesized to show that North and South Atlantic climatological net lateral volume exchange is partitioned into two seasonal regimes. From late-May to late-November, net lateral volume flux is from the North to the South Atlantic; whereas from late-November to late-May, net lateral volume flux is from the South to the North Atlantic. This climatological characterization offers a framework for assessing seasonal variations in these basins and provides a constraint for climate models that simulate AMOC dynamics.


2011 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polly G. Hill ◽  
Isabelle Mary ◽  
Duncan A. Purdie ◽  
Mikhail V. Zubkov

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 909-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Vidal ◽  
R.R. Schneider ◽  
O. Marchal ◽  
T. Bickert ◽  
T.F. Stocker ◽  
...  

I am sure that the greatest honour that can befall an after-dinner speaker is to propose the toast to the Royal Society and I simply couldn’t imagine why the Royal Society chose a mere Admiral to propose the toast. Then I got hold o f their history and I found out how much they depended on Admirals in the past. In the last two hundred years, forty-six o f the most distinguished Fellows of the Royal Society have been Admirals. The only Fellow of the Royal Society about whom a film has been made twice, was in fact a young Captain who also became an Admiral and a Fellow of the Royal Society. One was made before the war and there’s one in London now; you can see it in glorious technicolour and cinemascope. It’s about a man called William Bligh who had some trouble on the Bounty. But it wasn’t only Admirals who became Fellows of the Royal Society, because in those days there were also Captains. Edmund Halley, Astronomer Royal, commanded one of His Majesty’s Ships in 1698, with orders to traverse the North and South Atlantic Oceans in order to survey compass directions.


1957 ◽  
Vol 3 (21) ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
E. H. Muller ◽  
H. W. Coulter

AbstractAn unusual opportunity for the study of glaciers in the process of development is afforded in Katmaicaldera in south-western Alaska. A violent eruption in 1912 destroyed the summit of glacier-clad Mount Katmai, creating a caldera 4 km. wide and 800 m. deep. Ice cliffs produced by beheading of the glaciers have since thinned and shrunk away from the rim of the caldera, except in the south-west. There, local reversal of direction of movement has resulted in an ice fall which descends part way down the crater wall. In the past thirty years two small glaciers have formed, near 1525 m. above sea level, within the caldera on large masses of slumped wall-rock below the north and south rims respectively. Elsewhere the sheer walls of the crater descend so steeply to the level of the caldera lake that permanent snowbanks cannot accumulate. The lake, which continues to rise at a rate of more than five meters per year, is at present the primary deterring factor in glacier development in the caldera.


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