Palaeocurrent reconstruction, sediment and thorium focussing on the Iberian margin over the last 140 ka

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 151-164

  Hall, Ian R ^a   McCave, I Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental margin; Contourite; Grain size; Paleocurrents; Sedimentation; Thorium

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GRAIN SIZE; PALEOCURRENT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; THORIUM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034035087     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00068-6     Document Type: Article

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