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Tidal band current variability over the Northern California continental shelf
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Cenozoic deep-water agglutinated foraminifera in the North Atlantic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
Application of Seasat altimetry to tectonic studies of fracture zones in the Southern oceans
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Gravity derived from Seasat altimetry has provided a means of estimating seafloor topography and its compensation, which in turn can be used to understand the evolution of oceanic lithosphere. In the first study, the ...
Thermal and mechanical development of the East African Rift System
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
The deep basins, uplifted flanks, and volcanoes of the Western and Kenya rift systems have developed along the western and eastern margins of the 1300 km-wide East African plateau. Structural patterns deduced from field, ...
The effect of a shallow low viscosity zone on mantle convection and its expression at the surface of the earth
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Many features of the oceanic plates cannot be explained by conductive cooling with age. A number of these anomalies require additional convective thermal sources at depths below the plate: mid-plate swells, the evolution ...
Thermally driven circulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Several problems connected by the theme of thermal forcing are addressed herein. The main topic is the stratification and flow field resulting from imposing a specified heat flux on a fluid that is otherwise confined to a ...
Mass, heat and nutrient fluxes in the Atlantic Ocean determined by inverse methods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
Inverse methods are applied to historical hydrographic data to address two aspects of the general circulation of the Atlantic Ocean. The method allows conservation statements for mass and other properties, along with a ...
The tectonics and three-dimensional structure of spreading centers--microearthquake studies and tomographic inversions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface has been formed along a global system of spreading centers that are presently manifested in several different structural forms, including the classic rift valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, ...
Observations and modelling of deep equatorial currents in the central Pacific
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
Analysis of vertical profiles of absolute horizontal velocity collected in January 1981, February 1982 and April 1982 in the central equatorial Pacific as part of the Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics (PEQUOD) program, ...
Fluid flow and sound generation at hydrothermal vent fields
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)