[1] Millennial climate oscillations of the glacial interval are interrupted by extreme events, the so-called Heinrich events of the North Atlantic. Their near-global footprint is a testament to coherent interactions among Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere on millennial timescales. Heinrich

The cephalopod fauna of the world comprises approximately 700 species. An important portion of the Mediterranean cephalopod fauna is formed of Atlantic originated species (1) and in a study evaluating

Observations of sea surface height reveal that substantial changes have oc-curred over the past decade in the mid- to high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean. TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data show that subpolar sea surface height increased during the 1990s, and the geostrophic velocity derived from

Samples of organic matter were isolated f?om seawater of the North Atlantic Ocean and Halifax Harbour by a bubble adsorptive technique. The samples thus collected, representa-tive of the organic materials important in the transport of gcochcmical species across the air-sea interface, were

On the basis of 3 years of daily measurements of mineral dust concentrations at Sal Island (Cape Verde), this study focuses on the origin of the dust transported over the northeastern tropical Atlantic during the dusty season (October to April). Using backward trajectories, we have identified three

) that a branch of the North Atlantic current system flowed north through the eastern part of the Norwegian and Greenland seas, but it was Nansen (1902 et seq.) who first observed this water layer in the Arctic Ocean and recognized its connection with water of Atlantic origin. In 1910 (Helland

in the Americas. Grown by slaves as well as maroons, on plantations for subsistence as well as for export, rice cultivation accompanied African settlement of the Americas. This article reviews the indigenous knowledge systems that informed the cultivation of rice along the African as well as American Atlantic

is poorly known. Here, we evaluate the known macroalgal diversity of NEAtlantic maerl beds from Svalbard to Portugal. Maerl beds occur from the low intertidal down to 51 m in the clearest waters. To date, 349 macroalgal species have been recorded on maerl in the NE Atlantic (67 % are Rhodophyta), a re

The character and field occurrence of fulgurites from the Cretaceous sands of North and South Carolina are described. Over one hundred tubes averaging about three-eighths of an inch in diameter have been collected. The tubes have been traced downward sixty feet and are surprisingly abundant in areas that could be examined in detail. The paper also includes a state-ment on artificial fulgurite formation and a bibliography on lightning as a geological factor. * Paper presented in abstract at the fifteenth annual meeting of the Mineralogical

The rise of Western Europe after 1500 is due largely to growth in countries with access to the Atlantic Ocean and with substantial trade with the New World, Africa, and Asia via the Atlantic. This trade and the associated colonialism affected Europe not only directly, but also indirectly