Bottom water throughflows at the Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande Fracture Zones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1503-1506

  Mercier, Herlé ^a,c   Weatherly, Georges L ^b   Arhan, Michel ^a,c  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUBMARINE RIDGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BOTTOM WATER; FRACTURE ZONE; FRESH WATER; HYDROGRAPHIC ANOMALIES; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; OCEAN DEPTH; RIO GRANDE; THROUGHFLOW;

FRACTURE;

EID: 0034525711     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011402     Document Type: Article

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