Muddy contourites in the Baltic Sea: an example of a shallow-water contourite system

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 121-136

  Sivkov, Vadim ^a   Gorbatskiy, Vladimir ^b   Kuleshov, Alexey ^a   Zhurov, Yury ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b KRYLOV STATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 11144343020     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2002.022.01.10     Document Type: Article

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