The Amazon shelf setting: Tropical, energetic, and influenced by a large river

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 553-573

  Nittrouer, Charles A ^a   DeMaster, David J ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON; OCEANS; PROCESSES; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

TRACE METAL; WATER;

AMAS SEDS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DYNAMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; EQUATORIAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL INPUT; PRODUCTIVITY; REWORKING; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENTATION; WAVE MOTION;

ACCELERATION; ADSORPTION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENT; MACROBENTHOS; MANGROVE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PLUME; PRODUCTIVITY; RIVER; SEASON; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SOLUTE; VEGETATION; WEATHERING;

ATLANTIC, AMAZON CONTINENTAL SHELF; ATLANTIC, AMAZON SHELF;

EID: 0029656633     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0278-4343(95)00069-0     Document Type: Article

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