A submarine fan in the Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean

Marine Geology

Volumn 204, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 317-324

  Kristoffersen, Yngve ^a   Sorokin, Mikhail Y ^b   Jokat, Wilfried ^c   Svendsen, Oddny ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedition   (Russian Federation)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d NORWEGIAN PETROLEUM DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Amundsen Basin; Arctic Ocean; Bottom features; Glaci marine sedimentation; Submarine fan

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT INPUT; SUBMARINE FAN;

DATA ACQUISITION; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

GEOLOGY;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SUBMARINE FAN;

AMUNDSEN BASIN; ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 1842485941     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00373-6     Document Type: Article

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