Miocene changes in bottom current regime recorded in continental rise sediments on the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Hernandez Molina F J ^a   Larter, R D ^b   Rebesco, M ^c   Maldonado, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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

^d INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3022 Marine Geology and Geophysics: Marine sediments processes and transport; 3025 Marine Geology and Geophysics: Marine seismics (0935); 4267 Oceanography: General: Paleoceanography; 4863 Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Sedimentation; 9310 Information Related to Geographic Region: Antarctica

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; WATER; WATER WAVES;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; FOSSIL MOUNDED SEDIMENTARY BODY (MB); MIOCENE; SEAMOUNTS;

SEDIMENTS;

BOTTOM CURRENT; CONTINENTAL RISE; MIOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 14044268656     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020298     Document Type: Article

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