Paleoceanographic History of Intermediate and Deep Water    Masses:  Continental Margin, Western North Atlantic
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This project is for a detailed sedimentological,                        geochemical, and micropaleontological study of piston cores                     from the continental margin of the eastern USA.  The results                    will include new stable isotopic data, census and computerized                  shape analysis of benthic foraminifera, organic carbon                          analysis, determination of C/N ratios on selected samples and                   accelerator carbon -14 dating from cores at continental slope                   and rise depths.  The goal is to integrate this new information                 into a paleoceanographic/sedimentologic model which compares                    the dynamics of intermediate depth water masses along the                       western boundary of the North Atlantic with the deep water                      basins of this ocean during the late Quaternary.                                %%%                                                                                     An understanding of the paleoceanographic history of the                North Atlantic is important because oceanographic processes in                  this region and climatic changes on the surrounding land masses                 have major effects world-wide.  Studies of paleoceanography                     shed light on paleoclimates.  An understanding of                               paleoclimates, their evolution and ties to the pale ocean can                   help us understand present ocean-climate interactions.
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