Tracing the North Atlantic Deep Water through the Romanche and Chain Fracture Zones with chlorofluoromethanes

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1247-1278

  Messias, M J ^a,b   Andrie C ^a   Memery L ^a   Mercier, H ^c  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; FRACTURE ZONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033168669     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00005-9     Document Type: Article

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