Migration history of a fine-grained abyssal sediment wave on the Bahama Outer Ridge

Marine Geology

Volumn 192, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 259-273

  Flood, Roger D ^a   Giosan, Liviu ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Abyssal circulation; Blake Bahama Outer Ridge; Furrow; Mid Pleistocene Transition; Mud wave; North Atlantic; Ocean Drilling Program; Paleocirculation; Sediment wave; Site 1062

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL MUD WAVES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; OCEAN CURRENTS; WAVES;

MARINE APPLICATIONS;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; BOTTOM CURRENT; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037115743     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00558-3     Document Type: Article

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