The Eirik Drift: A long-term barometer of North Atlantic deepwater flux south of Cape Farewell, Greenland

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 276, Issue , 2007, Pages 245-263

  Hunter, Sally E ^a   Wilkinson, D ^a   Stanford, J ^a   Stow, D A V ^a   Bacon, S ^a   Akhmetzhanov, A M ^a   Kenyon, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; BOUNDARY CURRENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP WATER; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; EOCENE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCURRENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE RIDGE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 34248668161     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.276.01.12     Document Type: Article

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