Submersible observations of the sea floor near the proposed Georges Bank lease sites along the North Atlantic outer continental shelf and upper slope

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Slater
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Georges Bank ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Upper Slope

Episodes of sea-floor spreading recorded by the North Atlantic basement

1971 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.R. Vogt ◽  
G.L. Johnson ◽  
T.L. Holcombe ◽  
J.G. Gilg ◽  
O.E. Avery
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Sea Floor Spreading

scholarly journals The carbon budget of the North Sea

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Thomas ◽  
Y. Bozec ◽  
H. J. W. de Baar ◽  
K. Elkalay ◽  
M. Frankignoulle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
North Sea ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Carbon Budget ◽  
North Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Carbon Sink ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The North Atlantic

Abstract. A carbon budget has been established for the North Sea, a shelf sea on the NW European continental shelf. The carbon exchange fluxes with the North Atlantic Ocean dominate the gross carbon budget. The net carbon budget – more relevant to the issue of the contribution of the coastal ocean to the marine carbon cycle – is dominated by the carbon inputs from rivers, the Baltic Sea and the atmosphere. The North Sea acts as a sink for organic carbon and thus can be characterised as a heterotrophic system. The dominant carbon sink is the final export to the North Atlantic Ocean. More than 90% of the CO2 taken up from the atmosphere is exported to the North Atlantic Ocean making the North Sea a highly efficient continental shelf pump for carbon.

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