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Kieffer, B; Arndt, Nt; Weis, D. |
A bimodal volcanic sequence of 230 m thickness on Skiff Bank, a western salient of the northern Kerguelen Plateau, was drilled during ODP Leg 183. The sequence comprises three main units: a mafic unit of trachybasalt flows sandwiched between two units of trachytic or rhyolitic flows and volcaniclastic rocks. Although interpretation is complicated by moderate to strong alteration of the rocks, their original chemical character can be established using the least mobile major and trace elements (Al, Th, high field strength elements and rare earth elements). High concentrations of alkalis and incompatible trace elements indicate that both mafic and felsic rocks are alkalic. The felsic rocks may have been derived by partial melting of mafic rocks, followed by... |
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Palavras-chave: Ocean Drilling Program; Kerguelen Plateau; Skiff Bank. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00223/33406/31863.pdf |
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Maraldi, Claire; Lyard, Florent; Testut, Laurent; Coleman, Richard. |
A barotropic tidal model, with a parameterization term to account for the internal wave drag energy dissipation, is used to examine areas of possible M(2) internal tide generation in the Kerguelen Plateau region. Barotropic energy flux and a distribution of wave drag dissipation are computed. The results suggest important conversion of barotropic energy into baroclinic tide generation over the northern Kerguelen Plateau shelf break, consistent with a theoretical criterion based on ocean stratification, tidal forcing frequency, and bathymetric gradients. The sea surface height signatures of time-coherent internal tides are studied using TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 altimeter data, whose ascending tracks cross nearly perpendicular to the eastern and western... |
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Palavras-chave: Internal tides; Kerguelen Plateau; Altimetry; Barotropic tides. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00144/25564/23709.pdf |
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Rosso, Isabella; Mazloff, Matthew R.; Talley, Lynne D.; Purkey, Sarah G.; Freeman, Natalie M.; Maze, Guillaume. |
The Southern Ocean (SO) is one of the most energetic regions in the world, where strong air‐sea fluxes, oceanic instabilities, and flow‐topography interactions yield complex dynamics. The Kerguelen Plateau (KP) region in the Indian sector of the SO is a hotspot for these energetic dynamics, which result in large spatio‐temporal variability of physical and biogeochemical (BGC) properties throughout the water column. Data from Argo floats (including biogeochemical) are used to investigate the spatial variability of intermediate and deep water physical and BGC properties. An unsupervised machine learning classification approach is used to organize the float profiles into five SO frontal zones based on their temperature and salinity structure between 300 and... |
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Palavras-chave: Southern Ocean; Kerguelen Plateau; Argo; Unsupervised clustering; Machine learning. |
Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00613/72471/71438.pdf |
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