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Science 2 March 1979:
Vol. 203. no. 4383, pp. 894 - 897
DOI: 10.1126/science.203.4383.894
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Anomalous Bottom Water South of the Grand Banks Suggests Turbidity Current Activity

ANTHONY F. AMOS 1 and ROBERT D. GERARD 2

1 Port Aransas Marine Laboratory, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas 78373
2 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964

Highly turbid bottom water at the margin of the Sohm Abyssal Plain was identified by its temperature, salinity, and oxygen content as originating upslope on the continental rise. The fact that the particulate concentrations were one to two orders of magnitude higher than are normally found in deep ocean waters suggests a turbidity current as the agent bringing this water downslope.

Submitted on July 7, 1978
Revised on September 11, 1978


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