Glacial contourites on the Antarctic Peninsula margin: Insight for palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic conditions

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 276, Issue , 2007, Pages 111-127

  Lucchi, Renata G ^a,b   Rebesco, Michele ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; CONTOURITE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POLYNYA; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 34248666405     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.276.01.06     Document Type: Article

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