Santos Drift System: Stratigraphic organization and implications for late Cenozoic palaeocirculation in the Santos Basin, SW Atlantic Ocean

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 276, Issue , 2007, Pages 171-198

  Duarte, Cláudio S L ^a   Viana, Adriano R ^a  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; CENOZOIC; CONTOURITE; DEEP WATER; GLACIOEUSTACY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGENE; PLIOCENE; RUPELIAN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); BRAZIL CURRENT; SANTOS BASIN;

EID: 34248648763     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.276.01.09     Document Type: Article

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