Continental slope sedimentation adjacent to an ice margin. III. The upper Labrador Slope

Marine Geology

Volumn 155, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 249-276

  Hesse, Reinhard ^a   Klauck, Ingo ^a   Khodabakhsh, Saeed ^a   Piper, David ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continental slope; Glaciomarine sedimentation; Ice margin winnowing; Labrador sea; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Seismic profiles

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; SEDIMENTATION;

EID: 0033105196     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00054-1     Document Type: Article

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