Stratigraphic evidence of changes in Amazon shelf sedimentation during the late Holocene

Marine Geology

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 1995, Pages 351-371

  Sommerfield, Christopher K ^a   Nittrouer, Charles A ^a   Figueiredo, Alberto G ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLUVIAL PROCESS; FLUVIAL PROCESSES; HOLOCENE; METEOROLOGICAL PROCESS; METEOROLOGICAL PROCESSES; OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESS; OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC, AMAZON SHELF; SOUTH AMERICA, AMAZON SHELF;

EID: 0029526205     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(95)00019-U     Document Type: Article

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