Ten-month observation of the bottom current regime across a sediment drift of the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Science

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 426-433

  Camerlenghi', Angelo ^a   Crise, A ^a   Pudsey, C J ^b   Accerbonm, E ^b   Laterza, R ^a   Rebesco, M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Antarctic Peninsula; Bottom currents; Contourites; Sediment drifts

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; BOTTOM CURRENTS; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY EFFECTS; CONTINENTAL RISE; SEDIMENT DRIFT; SEDIMENT DRIFTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC; PENINSULA MARGIN;

EID: 0030696828     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0954102097000552     Document Type: Article

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