Biogenic sedimentation beneath the California Current System for the past 30 kyr and its paleoceanographic significance

Paleoceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-225

  Gardner, James V ^a   Dean, Walter E ^a   Dartnell, Peter ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC DEPOSITS; BIOGENIC SEDIMENTATION; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION;

PACIFIC, CALIFORNIA CURRENT;

EID: 0030826675     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96PA03567     Document Type: Article

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