Shelf/slope

Green MA. Aller RC, Cochran JK, Lee C, Aller JY (2002). Bioturbation in shelf/slope sediments off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina The use of " Th, Chl-a, and Br to evaluate rates of particle and solute transport. Deep-Sea Res 1149(20) 4627-4644... 

Continental margin The zone separating the emergent continents from the deep-sea bottom it generally consists of a continental shelf, slope, and rise. 

James N.P. and Mountjoy E.W. (1983) Shelf-slope break in fossil carbonate platforms An overview. In Shelfbreak Critical Interface on Continental Margins (eds. D.J. Stanley and G.T. Moore), pp. 189-206. SEPM Spec. Pub. No. 33, Tulsa, OK. 

Bianchi, T.S., Lambert, C.D., Santschi, P.H., and Guo, L. (1997b) Sources and transport of land-derived particulate and dissolved organic matter in the Gulf of Mexico (Texas shelf/slope) the use of lignin-phenols and loliolides as biomarkers. Org. Geochem. 27, 65-78. 

One more deep-sea eddy transformed from a coastal anticyclone was observed over a month in the fall of 1997 [23]. This eddy was formed on September 6-8, 1997 west of Novorossiisk in the zone of the shelf/slope widening. Later on, it gradually moved southwestward away from the coast (Fig. 5) at a mean rate of 4.3 cm/s. During this time, its diameter increased from 40 to 75 km due to the entrainment of the adjacent waters. Then, most probably, it merged with an anticyclone off the southeastern coast of the Crimea. 

Fig. 7. Model section of the shelf, slope and deeper waters of an Archaean ocean. 

Sequence 3 (S3) starts with a 50 m thick lenticular body of resedimented arenites which overlies S2 with an erosional contact and passes upward to fossiliferous silty and clayey marls. S3 arenites are interpreted as channel-fill and shelf/slope deposits. 

Killops S.D., Hollis C.J., Morgans H.E.G., Sutherland R., Field B.D., Leckie D.A. (2000b) Paleoceanographic significance of Late Paleocene dysaerobia at the shelf/slope break around New Zealand. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclim. Palaeoecol. 156, 51-70. 

Water depth Bathymetric ranges of abundant species in modern oceans Depth zonation largely local although broad distinction between shelf, slope and abyssal depth zones possible... 

To the east of ECS, the Kuroshio Current, a strong western boundary current, flowing along the Pacific Margin of northeastern Asia, borders the shelf slope of the East China Sea. When passing through the ECS, it has... 

In addition, the research on sediment phosphorus can supply information about the paleoenvironment. The information about the environment and biogeochemistry of phosphorus extracted from the South Sea shelf slope sediments showed that the supply of terrigenous phosphorus for the sea was steady overall. The change in phosphorus contents in different depths was the result of climate and environmental changes. The vertical distribution of phosphorus had an opposite trend to calcium carbonate and Cd in sediment. The ebb and flow between CO2 and in seawater calculated by chemical balance in-... 

Benthic soft sediments on shelf, slope and in deep sea... 

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