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THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE STRONTIUM: CHLORINITY RATIO TO WATER MASSES IN THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN AND CARIBBEAN SEA
Author(s) -
Andersen N. R.,
Gassaway J. D.,
Maloney W. E.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1970.15.3.0467
Subject(s) - seawater , oceanography , strontium , hydrography , sill , geology , water mass , geochemistry , chemistry , organic chemistry
The strontium: chlorinity ratios of seawater from 5 hydrographic stations in the Atlantic Ocean are statistically compared to 4 in the Caribbean Sea using discriminant analysis. The variation of this chemical parameter is consistent with the physical oceanographic description of water flow into the Caribbean Sea. Increased mixing of the inflowing waters that results from the bottom topography, because of the location of the sill in the Lesser Antillean Arc, is suggested as the physical mechanism for the variation in the observed strontium: chlorinity ratio; the chemical basis for the initial variability in this ratio is not known.