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Monograph "The Ioffe Drift" published by Springer

The Springer publishing house published the monograph "The Ioffe Drift". The authors are employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences: I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, D.G. Borisov, N.A. Shulga, O.V. Levchenko, D.I. Frey, O.B. Dmitrenko, E.V. Dorohova, O.M. Dara, N.V. Libina.

drift Murdmaa I., Ivanova E. (eds) The Ioffe Drift. Springer Geology. Springer.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-82871-4
ISBN 978-3-030-82870-7
ISBN 978-3-030-82871-4 (eBook)
Part of the Springer Geology book series (SPRINGERGEOL)
Publication year: 2021
Number of pages: 195.
Publisher: Springer Nature

The Discovery of the calcareous Ioffe Drift in the SW Atlantic opens new perspectives in the contourite theory. Although demonstrating similar behavior relative to bottom water dynamics, rather rare and poorly studied calcareous contourites differ from their terrigenous analogs in origin, grain-size distribution, chemical and mineral composition of sedimentary particles.

The detailed multidisciplinary study of the Ioffe Drift produces new knowledge on biogenic contourites deposited in pelagic realm, in conditions of low biological productivity and terrigenous material supply, under the influence of the Antarctic Bottom Water flow from the Vema Channel. The major intervals of prevailing erosion are inferred on the drift from 2.51/2.59 to 1.9 Ma and from 1.6 to 0.81 Ma thus indicating strong paleoceanographic changes, most likely associated with the reorganization of deep-sea circulation and increased bottom water production in the Southern Ocean during the Early Pleistocene and, in particular, around the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

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