Browsing Graduate Theses by Subject "Abyssal zone"

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Abyssal mixing from bottom boundary effects in Mid-Atlantic Ridge flank canyons

Dell, Rebecca Walsh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)

This paper begins to explore a previously neglected mechanism for abyssal ocean mixing using bottom boundary layer dynamics. Abyssal mixing and the associated upward buoyancy fluxes are necessary to balance the sinking of ...