Ice-sheet sourced juxtaposed turbidite systems in Labrador Sea

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-12

  Hesse, Reinhard ^a   Klaucke, Ingo ^a,d   Ryan, William B F ^b   Piper, David J W ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SEA; DEEP SEA SEDIMENT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; ICE-SHEET SOURCED; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITES;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0031439199     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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