Clay mineral distribution in surface sediments of the South Atlantic: Sources, transport, and relation to oceanography

Marine Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 203-229

  Petschick, Rainer ^a,b   Kuhn, Gerhard ^a   Gingele, Franz ^a,c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL SEDIMENT; CLAY MINERAL; CLAY MINERALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

ATLANTIC, (SOUTH);

EID: 0029730716     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(95)00148-4     Document Type: Article

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