Ling Wang

Institution:	University of Bremen
Office:	GEO, room 2580
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PhD Project

Evolution of deep ocean currents in the Rockall Basin (NE Atlantic Ocean) since the Late Paleogene

The NW European Atlantic margin, particularly the Rockall basin, is characterized with various contouritic features since the Late Paleogene, which are caused by the impact of bottom currents. Although the main contouritic features, such as moats and contourite drifts, seem to be clearly formed by the main core of bottom currents related to the average circulation, the origin of other contouritic features such as contourite terraces, plastered drifts and sediment waves is still much less clear.

Using the combined disciplinary approaches of marine geophysics, physical oceanography and sedimentology, the purpose of this project is to understand how different oceanographic processes shape the seafloor and control sedimentation in deep-marine environments. This work will promote the recognition of the evolution of contourite depositional systems in the NW European Atlantic Ocean, which improves palaeoceanographic reconstructions in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans

Thesis Committee

Prof. Dr. Elda Miramontes	University of Bremen, MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences
Dr. Alice Lefebvre	MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Dr. Tilman Schwenk	University of Bremen, Faculty of Geosciences
Prof. Dr. Andrew Wheeler	School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland