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    The western boundary undercurrent as a turbidity maximum over the Puerto Rico Trench

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    Date
    1974-09-20
    Author
    Tucholke, Brian E.  Concept link
    Eittreim, Stephen  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5789
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1029/JC079i027p04115
    DOI
    10.1029/JC079i027p04115
    Abstract
    Nephelometer measurements in the Puerto Rico trench record a midwater light scattering maximum at the depth of the near-bottom nepheloid layer found in the deep Atlantic basin to the northwest. This midwater maximum is best developed near the south slope of the trench and is interpreted as a southeasterly continuation of the western boundary undercurrent, which has been documented along the continental rise of eastern North America. The eastward-advecting core of the flow overrides clearer colder antarctic bottom water that enters the trench from the east. A near-bottom nepheloid layer, best developed in the eastern part of the trench, appears to be associated with the westward-flowing antarctic bottom current.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 1974. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 79 (1974): 4115–4118, doi:10.1029/JC079i027p04115.
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    Journal of Geophysical Research 79 (1974): 4115–4118
     
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