Deep flow in the Madagascar-Mascarene Basin over the last 150 000 years

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1826, 2005, Pages 81-99

  Mccave, I N ^a   Kiefer, T ^a   Thornalley, D J R ^a   Elderfield, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benthic; Carbon isotopes; Deep western boundary current; Oxygen isotopes; Palaeoflow; Sortable silt

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244354317     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1480     Document Type: Article

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