I.N. McCave

Prof. I.N. McCave
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge, CB2 3EQ
United Kingdom


Phone: (44 1223) 33 34 22
E-mail: inm21(at)cam.ac.uk
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of I.N. McCave (up to ten) :
McCave I.N, 2019. Nepheloid Layers. In: Cochran, J.K., Bokuniewicz, J.H., Yager, L.P. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 3rd Ed., v. 4, 170-183. Oxford, Elsevier.
McCave, I.N., Thornalley, D.J.R., & Hall, I.R., 2017. Relation of sortable silt grain size to deep-sea current speeds: Calibration of the ‘Mud Current Meter’ Deep-Sea Research Part I, 127, 1-12.
McCave, I.N., Crowhurst, S.C., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D. & Meredith, M.P. 2014. Minimal change in Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow speed between the last Glacial and Holocene. Nature Geoscience, 7, 113-116.
McCave, I.N., Carter, L. & Hall, I.R., 2008. Glacial-interglacial changes in water mass structure and flow in the SW Pacific. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 1886-1908.
Andrews, J.T., McCave, I.N., & Syvitski, J., 2021. A ~240 ka record of ice sheet and ocean interactions on the Snorri Drift, SW of Iceland. Global and Planetary Change, 201, 103498.
McCave I.N. & Andrews, J.T., 2019 Distinguishing current effects in sediments delivered to the ocean by ice. I. Principles, methods and examples. Quaternary Science Reviews 212, 92-107.
McCave I.N. and I.R. Hall, 2006. Size sorting in marine muds: Processes, pitfalls and prospects for palaeoflow-speed proxies. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q10N05, doi:10.1029/2006GC001284, 37 pp.
Hall, I.R., McCave, I.N., Shackleton, N.J., Weedon,G.P. & Harris,S.E., 2001 Intensified deep Pacific inflow and ventilation during Pleistocene glacial times. Nature, 412:809-812.
Hill, P.S. and McCave, I.N. 2001. Chapter 4. Suspended particle transport in benthic boundary layers. In B.P. Boudreau & B.B. Jorgensen (eds) The Benthic Boundary Layer: Transport Processes and Biogeochemistry, Oxford Univ. Press, p. 78-103.
McCave, I.N., Manighetti, B. and Beveridge, N.A.S. 1995. Changes in circulation of the North Atlantic during the last 25,000 years inferred from grainsize measurements. Nature, 374:149-152.




Expertise of I.N. McCave:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Scientific / Fundamental Research
Scope	Process Studies
	Causes of Change
	Impact of Change
Topic Hydrosphere	Hydrosphere
	Ocean
Topic Lithosphere	Lithosphere
Time Frame	Past
	Recent / Today
Methods	Data Collection - Measurement

Specialties of I.N. McCave:
sediment dynamics; deep ocean circulation; sediment analysis, particularly grain size.

Last update: 11/16/23
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