Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Oceanography

8.2 ka Event - Timing & Structure inferred from Δ18O Records of Stalagmites from China, Oman, and Brazil
Antarctic Bottom Water Produced by intense formation of Sea-Ice in the Cape Darnley Polynya
Antarctic Bottom Water - Freshening and Warming 1980s-2000s
East Antarctica - Relative Sea-Level Rise During Oligocene Glaciation
Abyssal Water Circulation
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Antarctic Sea-Ice Expansion - Important role of Ocean Warming and Increased Ice-Shelf Melt
The West Antarctic Ice Shelf warming from beneath
West Antarctica - Recent Changes in Climate and Ice Sheet Compared to the Past 2000 Years
Asian Connections
Atlantic Ocean
Terrestrial Carbon Cycle - Fingerprints of Changes in Response to Large Ocean Circulation Reorganisation
Atlantic Ocean CO2 uptake reduced by weakening meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)
Atlantic Ocean - Northeast Circulation Impacted by Mesoscale Polar Storms
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) - Driving Processes
Atlantic Ocean - Multiple Causes for Equatorial Surface Interannual Temperature Variability
Atlantic ocean - Tropical Warm Events
Microbial Carbon Turnover - High Rates in Sediments in Deepest Oceanic Trench
North Atlantic Climate During the Last Glacial Period - Links with Tropical Rainfall
North Atlantic Forcing of Amazonian Precipitation During the Last Ice Age
Bedout High
Continental Shelf, Slope and Rise
Brinicles

The Cryogenian

The Cryosphere - Biosphere Interactions
The Cryosphere - The Geography of Snow and Ice on Earth

The Cryosphere - Glaciers & Ice Sheets

The Cryosphere - Albedo of Snow and Ice
The Cryosphere - Interaction between Ocean and Ice 
The Cryosphere - Influence on Circulation of the Atmosphere
The Cryosphere - Effects on the Hydrological Cycle
The Cryosphere - As a Latent Energy Buffer
The Cryosphere - Permafrost
Deep-sea CaCo3 sedimentation - Response to Shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Early Holocene Ice-Sheet Decay, Rising Sea Level and Abrupt Climate Change
Global mid-ocean ridge system
Heinrich Events, Massive Detritus Layers from the Late Pleistocene in the North Atlantic -Their Global Climate Imprint
Mid-late Holocene Variability of sea level in Eastern Australia
Iapetus Ocean
India Moving North
Indo-Pacific Warm Pool - Oscillation in its Southern Extent During the Middle Holocene
Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean Dipole
Indo-Australian Plate
The global mid-ocean ridge system
The Main Oceans in Order of Size
Neoarchaean Sulphate Concentrations in Seawater from Sulphur Isotopes in Massive Sulphide Ores
Newell's Hypothesis
Ocean Basins
Ocean - Coast, Shore & Beach
Oceanic Crust-Origins
Ocean Floor Sediment
Oceanic Fracture Zones
Ocean Trenches - Plate tectonics
Pacific Ocean
Panthalassic Ocean
Plate Tectonics
Seafloor Features
Southern Ocean
Southern Ocean - Routs of Energy Dissipation for Geostrophic Flows
The Southwestern Indian Ridge - Continuous exhumation of rocks derived from the Mantle for 11 My
Subduction Zones
Subduction Zones - Variation of Characteristics
Submarine Canyons
Submarine gateways and waterfalls
Tethys Ocean
Tethys Ocean Food Chains
Tethys Ocean Productivity & Recycling
Tethys Ocean Stirring
Tethys Ocean Explanation of low oxygen levels
Tethys Ocean Global change and ocean circulation
Tethys Ocean and Flooding of the Continents when Sea Levels were High
Tethys Ocean life- old and new in a greenhouse world
Tethys Ocean Recycling and mountain uplift
Tethys Ocean - Black smokers, tube worms and deep-sea metals
Tethys Ocean Fish
Tethys Ocean Belt of Ophiolites
Author: M. H. Monroe
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Last updated 16/05/2013

 

 
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