Deep slope currents and suspended particle fluxes in and around the Foix submarine canyon (NW Mediterranean)

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 343-366

  Puig, Pere ^a   Palanques, Albert ^a   Guillén, Jorge ^a   García Ladona, Emilio ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CURRENT; PARTICULATE FLUX;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0342905011     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00062-X     Document Type: Article

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