Evidence for a sedimentary fingerprint of an asymmetric flow field surrounding a short seamount

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 1023-1036

  Turnewitsch, Robert ^a   Reyss, Jean Louis ^b   Chapman, David C ^c   Thomson, John ^a   Lampitt, Richard S ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Abyssal hills; Asymmetric flow fields; Lead 210; Seamounts; Sedimentary record

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; FLOW FIELD; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SEAMOUNT; SEDIMENTATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 2942572627     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.03.042     Document Type: Article

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