The Norwegian-Greenland Sea continental margins: Morphology and late quaternary sedimentary processes and environment

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 273-302

  Vorren, Tore O ^a   Laberg, Jan Sverre ^a   Blaume, Frank ^b   Dowdeswell, Julian A ^c   Kenyon, Neil H ^d   Mienert, Jürgen ^e   Rumohr, Jan ^e   Werner, Friedrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE;

GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0031873835     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00072-3     Document Type: Article

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