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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Nonprofit•Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States•
About: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a nonprofit organization based out in Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Mantle (geology). The organization has 5685 authors who have published 18396 publications receiving 1202050 citations. The organization is also known as: WHOI.
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TL;DR: A general approach to the problem of comparing the consequences of competing strategies for biological diversity in optimizing strategies aimed at the conservation of biological diversity is presented.
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TL;DR: Playback experiments with wild bottlenose dolphins suggest that signature whistles are used for individual recognition, and it is predicted that mothers would respond more strongly to the whistles of their own independent offspring than to the whistle of a familiar, similar-aged nonoffspring.
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TL;DR: A review of the defining features of iron formations and their distribution through the Neo-archaean and Palaeoproterozoic is presented in this article, along with an update of previous reviews by Bekker et al. (2010, 2014).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd systematics of MORBs require garnet to be a residual phase in MORB melt genesis, and place the onset of melting beneath a mid-ocean ridge at depths greater than 80 km.
Abstract: MID-OCEAN-RIDGE basalts (MORBs) are thought to result from melting in the mantle at depths of less than 60 km, in the spinel stability field1–3 MORBs have 176Hf/177Hf ratios indicating derivation from a mantle reservoir with a long-term Lu/Hf ratio greater than that of Cl chondrite meteorites, yet the measured Lu/Hf ratios in MORB are lower than in Cl chondrites: this is the 'hafnium paradox'4 Here we show that the Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd systematics of MORBs require garnet to be a residual phase in MORB melt genesis This places the onset of melting beneath a mid-ocean ridge at depths greater than 80 km A sequential melting model, in which melting starts in the garnet stability field and then continues at shallower levels, best explains the combined Nd and Hf isotope systematics, and is compatible with our present geophysical and geochemical knowledge of mid-ocean-ridge magmatism
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined water property distributions in the deep South China Sea and adjoining Pacific Ocean using all available hydrographic data and revealed that below about 1500 m there is a persistent baroclinic pressure gradient driving flow from the Pacific into the south China Sea through Luzon Strait.
Abstract: [1] This study examines water property distributions in the deep South China Sea and adjoining Pacific Ocean using all available hydrographic data. Our analysis reveals that below about 1500 m there is a persistent baroclinic pressure gradient driving flow from the Pacific into the South China Sea through Luzon Strait. Applying hydraulic theory with assumptions of zero potential vorticity and flat bottom to the Luzon Strait yields a transport estimate of 2.5 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3 s−1). Some implications of this result include: (1) a residence time of less than 30 years in the deep South China Sea, (2) a mean diapycnal diffusivity as large as 10−3 m2 s−1, and (3) an abyssal upwelling rate of about 3 × 10−6 m s−1. These quantities are consistent with residence times based on oxygen consumption rates. The fact that all of the inflowing water must warm up before leaving the basin implies that this marginal sea contributes to the water mass transformations that drive the meridional overturning circulation in the North Pacific. Density distributions within the South China Sea basin suggest a cyclonic deep boundary current system, as might be expected for an overflow-driven abyssal circulation.
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Roberto Romero | 151 | 1516 | 108321 |
Jerry M. Melillo | 134 | 383 | 68894 |
Timothy J. Mitchison | 133 | 404 | 66418 |
Xiaoou Tang | 132 | 553 | 94555 |
Jillian F. Banfield | 127 | 562 | 60687 |
Matthew Jones | 125 | 1161 | 96909 |
Rodolfo R. Llinás | 120 | 386 | 52828 |
Ronald D. Vale | 117 | 342 | 49020 |
Scott C. Doney | 111 | 406 | 59218 |
Alan G. Marshall | 107 | 1060 | 46904 |
Peter K. Smith | 107 | 855 | 49174 |
Donald E. Canfield | 105 | 298 | 43270 |
Edward F. DeLong | 102 | 262 | 42794 |
Eric A. Davidson | 101 | 281 | 45511 |
Gary G. Borisy | 101 | 248 | 38195 |