Indications for bottom current activity since Eocene times: The climate and ocean gateway archive of the Transkei Basin, South Africa

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 416-428

  Schlüter, Philip ^a   Uenzelmann Neben, Gabriele ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AABW; Agulhas Drift; current reconstruction; depocentres; depositional model; NADW; thermohaline circulation; Transkei Basin

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; CRETACEOUS; DEPOCENTER; EOCENE; HEAT TRANSFER; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PALEOCURRENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; WATER MASS;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 38349121637     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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