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Tidal band current variability over the Northern California continental shelf
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Molecular Biogeochemistry of modern and ancient marine microbes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Biological activity has shaped the surface of the earth in numerous ways, but life's most pervasive and persistent global impact has been the secular oxidation of the surface environment. Through primary production - the ...
The influence of ridge geometry at the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (9⁰-25⁰E) : basalt composition sensitivity to variations in source and process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Between 90-25° E on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge lie two sharply contrasting supersegments. One 630 km long supersegment erupts N-MORB that is progressively enriched in incompatible element concentrations ...
Cenozoic deep-water agglutinated foraminifera in the North Atlantic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
Seismic and magnetic constraints on the strucutre of upper oceanic crust and fast and slow spreading ridges
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
The upper ocean crust contains a comprehensive record of the shallow geological processes active along the world's mid-ocean ridge system. This thesis examines the magnetic and seismic structure of the upper crust at two ...
Magmatism and dynamics of continental breakup in the presence of a mantle plume
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis studies the dynamics of mantle melting during continental breakups by geophysical, geochemical, and numerical analyses. The first part focuses on the mantle melting and crustal accretion processes during the ...
Insights into vitamin B₁₂ production, acquisition, and use by marine microbes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The distribution and magnitude of marine primary production helps determine the ocean's role in global carbon cycling. Constraining factors that impact this productivity and elucidating selective pressures that drive the ...
Evolution of Anthropogenic Pb and Pb isotopes in the deep North Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Pb and Pb isotopes in the ocean have varied on decadal to centennial time scales due to anthropogenic Pb inputs. Thus, tracing the temporal variation of Pb and Pb isotopes in the ocean provides information on the major ...
Physical influences on phytoplankton ecology : models and observations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The physical environment in the oceans dictates not only how phytoplankton cells are dispersed and their populations intermingled, but also mediates the supply of nutrients to the surface mixed layer. In this thesis I ...
Gulf stream temperature, salinity and transport during the last millennium
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Benthic and planktonic foraminiferal [delta]18O ([delta 18Oc) from a suite of well-dated, high-resolution cores spanning the depth and width of the Straits of Florida reveal significant changes in Gulf Stream cross-current ...