Mid-late pleistocene glacimarine sedimentary processes of a high-latitude, deep-sea sediment drift (Antarctic Peninsula Pacific margin)

Marine Geology

Volumn 189, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 343-370

  Lucchi, R G ^a   Rebesco, M ^a   Camerlenghi, A ^a   Busetti, M ^a   Tomadin, L ^b   Villa, G ^c   Persico, D ^c   Morigi, C ^d   Bonci, M C ^e   Giorgetti, G ^f  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Contourites; Glacial sedimentation; Plumites; Sediment drifts; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION;

CLAY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MINERALS; RADIOGRAPHY; TURBIDITY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DEEP SEA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0037201898     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00470-X     Document Type: Article

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