TY - JOUR T1 - Bottom water throughflows at the Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande Fracture Zones A1 - Mercier,Herle A1 - Weatherly,Georges A1 - Arhan,Michel AD - UBO, IFREMER, CNRS, Lab Phys Oceans, Plouzane, France. AD - Florida State Univ, Dept Oceanog, Tallahassee, FL USA. AD - UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/491/ KW - Fractures and faults KW - Structural geology KW - Hydrography KW - General circulation KW - Physical oceanography N2 - Bottom water throughflows at the Rio de Janeiro Fracture Zone (22 degrees S) and Rio Grande Fracture Zone (26 degrees S) of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are identified from hydrographic anomalies observed along 9 degrees W in the Angola Basin. The throughflow water is supplied by a meridional band of cold and fresh water lying against the western flank of the Ridge. Y1 - 2000/05 PB - American Geophysical Union JF - Geophysical Research Letters SN - 0094-8276 VL - 27 IS - 10 SP - 1503 EP - 1506 ID - 491 ER -