Mass movements in glaciomarine sediments on the Barents Sea continental slope

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 12, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 287-307

  Kuvaas, Berit ^a   Kristoffersen, Yngve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEPOSITIONAL WEDGE; EROSION; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIOMARINE SEDIMENT; MASS MOVEMENT; UNCONFORMITY;

BARENTS SEA, BEAR ISLAND TROUGH;

EID: 0029772049     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-8181(95)00025-9     Document Type: Article

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