Study of the Rio de la Plata turbidity front. Part I: Spatial and temporal distribution

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1259-1267

  Framiñan, Mariana B ^a,b   Brown, Otis B ^b  

^a Servicio de Hidrografia Naval   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE FRONT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TURBIDITY;

SOUTH AMERICA, RIO DE LA PLATA;

EID: 0030153485     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0278-4343(95)00071-2     Document Type: Article

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