Sverdrup

Sverdrup

Sverdrup is a unit of measurement used to quantify the volume of water transported by a western boundary current. One Sverdrup is equal to one million cubic meters of water per second. The current being described in the sentence transports approximately 15 Sverdrup of water.From: Land–sea correlations in the Australian region: 460 ka of changes recorded in a deep-sea core offshore Tasmania. Part 2: the marine compared with the terrestrial record [2019]

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Published in Gunnar Kullenberg, Pollutant Transfer and Transport in the Sea, 1982

Gunnar Kullenberg

The mixing conditions can obviously also be investigated by means of the S, T distributions, using both the small-scale structure and the average (large-scale) distributions (see also Chapter 1). The so-called T-S diagram, often using the potential temperature, has been used in many classical investigations (see, for example, Sverdrup et al.,45 Defant,46 and Jacobsen47) showed that a combination of consecutive T-S profiles plotted in a T-S diagram could be used to determine the ratio between vertical mixing and horizontal velocity, assuming a balance between advection and vertical mixing. The so-called “core” method of tracing the extension of water masses, perhaps more appropriately called water types, is also well known (see, for example, Defant46).

The Alpha-Mendeleev ridge, a large igneous province with continental affinities

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Published in GFF, 2019

H. Ruth Jackson, D. Chian

The felsic lithology suggested by the velocity analysis is supported by the sedimentary history of the Sverdrup Basin and the Barents Shelf (Embry 2009; Anfinson et al. 2012, 2016) that require a continental sedimentary source from the vicinity of the AMR for extended periods. A continental sediment supply from the region of the AMR was common from Early Triassic to Middle Jurassic for the Sverdrup Basin and Barremian to Aptian for the Barents Shelf are documented. Limited geological data from the offshore including dredges from ships and sampling from submarines on AMR has recovered volcanic rocks that have continental flood basalt geochemistry and isotopic signature. Sediment cores on the Alpha Ridge have locally derived metasedimentary clasts and plutonic granite.

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