Seismic stratigraphy of Palmer Deep: A fault-bounded late Quaternary sediment trap on the inner continental shelf, Antarctic Peninsula Pacific margin

Marine Geology

Volumn 151, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 89-110

  Rebesco, M ^a   Camerlenghi, A ^a   De Santis, L ^a   Domack, E ^b   Kirby, M ^c  

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

^b HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Glaciomarine sediments; High resolution seismic stratigraphy; Holocene; Subglacial lakes

Indexed keywords

BASIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; SEDIMENT TRAP; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0032192232     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00057-7     Document Type: Article

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