FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Bottom water throughflows at the Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande Fracture Zones BT AF MERCIER, Herle WEATHERLY, Georges ARHAN, Michel AS 1:1;2:2;3:3; FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-DRO-DOPS-LPO; C1 UBO, IFREMER, CNRS, Lab Phys Oceans, Plouzane, France. Florida State Univ, Dept Oceanog, Tallahassee, FL USA. C2 CNRS, FRANCE UNIV FLORIDA STATE, USA IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-DRO-DOPS-LPO IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 IF 2.719 TC 12 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2000/publication-491.pdf LA English DT Article CR CITHER : CIRCULATION THERMOCLINE DE ;Fractures and faults;Structural geology;Hydrography;General circulation;Physical oceanography AB 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. PY 2000 PD MAY SO Geophysical Research Letters SN 0094-8276 PU American Geophysical Union VL 27 IS 10 UT 000087062000020 BP 1503 EP 1506 ID 491 ER EF