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Nature Geoscience 1, 9 - 10 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo.2007.43

Subject Category: Palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography

Palaeoceanography: The briny deep

Ellen Martin1

  1. Ellen Martin is in the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, 241 Williamson Hall, PO Box 112120, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
    e-mail: eemartin@ufl.edu


Modern deep waters form in the Nordic seas when high-salinity surface waters cool and sink. An analysis of Arctic Ocean sediments suggests that throughout the past fifteen million years, brines created during sea-ice formation controlled the sinking of water.

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