Sedimentary regimes at the Macquarie Ridge Complex: Interaction of Southern Ocean circulation and plate boundary bathymetry

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 646-670

  Schuur, Catherine L ^a   Coffin, Millard F ^a   Frohlich, Cliff ^a   Massell, Christina G ^a,b   Karner, Garry D ^c   Ramsay, Doug ^d   Caress, David W ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^e SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0032421914     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98PA02357     Document Type: Article

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