Fluvial features in the deep-sea: New insights from the glacigenic submarine drainage system of the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel in the Labrador Sea

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 223-234

  Klaucke, Ingo ^a,b   Hesse, Reinhard ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Braided; Meandering; NAMOC; Seafloor morphology; Submarine drainage system

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; BRAIDED CHANNEL; DRAINAGE SYSTEM; GLACIGENIC DRAINAGE; MEANDERING CHANNEL; SEA FLOOR;

LABRADOR SEA, NORTHWEST ATLANTIC MID OCEAN CHANNEL;

EID: 0030499261     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00008-5     Document Type: Article

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