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In answer to Jim Jones' question, it has been well established
that the main driving force behind the meridional circulation of the
North Atlantic conveyor belt, with ultimate worldwide impacts, is the
descent of cold high-density saline water into the abyssal ocean at high
northern latitudes. This isolated "village"--actually an
ecologically remarkable archipelago with an exotic history that at times
seems straight out of a novel-consists of several clusters of volcanic
islands and one small coral islet, all of which sit atop great peaks
rising from the abyssal gloom of the Pacific's floor. Other chapters find her in the abyssal deeps of the
world-ocean Tethys, tasting the chemistry of the seawater and sifting
through the crystalline intricacies of the one-celled diatoms raining
down to create future cliffs and shoals of limestone. |
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