Continental margin sedimentation, with special reference to the north-east Atlantic margin

Sedimentology

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages 239-256

  Weaver, Philip P E ^a   Wynn, Russell B ^a   Kenyon, Neil H ^a   Evans, Jeremy ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom current; Continental margin; Debris flow; Sediments; Slope processes; Turbidity current

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEBRIS FLOW; SEDIMENTATION; SLOPE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034105992     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.0470s1239.x     Document Type: Article

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