Temporal and spatial variations in Late Quaternary slope sedimentation along the undersupplied margins of the Rockall Trough, offshore west Ireland

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 279-294

  Øvrebø, Lena K ^a   Haughton, Peter D W ^a   Shannon, Patrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CONTOURITE; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; INTERGLACIAL; INTERSTADIAL; MASS WASTING; QUATERNARY; SONAR IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; ROCKALL TROUGH; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746381188     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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