The interplay between turbidity and contour current processes on the Columbia Channel fan drift, Southern Brazil Basin

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 111-132

  Masse L ^a   Faugeres J C ^a   Hrovatin, V ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

AABW; Brazil Basin; Contour currents; Contourites; Echofacies; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR CURRENT; CONTOURITE; TURBIDITE;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031842484     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(97)00089-4     Document Type: Article

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