Role of the climatological and current variability on shelf-slope exchanges of particulate matter: Evidence from the Rhone continental margin (NW Mediterranean)

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1513-1538

  Durrieu De Madron, X ^a   Radakovitch, O ^a,b   Heussner, S ^a   Loye Pilot, M D ^c   Monaco, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b CEREGE   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CURRENT; PARTICULATE FLUX;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033198192     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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