Hydrodynamically driven patterns of recent sedimentation in the shelf and upper slope off Southeast Brazil

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1685-1697

  De Mahiques, Michel Michaelovitch ^a   Tessler, Moysés Gonsalez ^a   Maria Ciotti, Aurea ^a   Da Silveira, Ilson Carlos Almeida ^a   E Sousa, Silvia Helena De Mello ^a   Figueira, Rubens Cesar Lopes ^b   Tassinari, Colombo Celso Gaeta ^a   Furtado, Valdenir Veronese ^a   Passos, Raquel Fernanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE CRUZEIRO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Brazil current; Ocean circulation; Sediment distribution; Sediment transport; Shelf dynamics; South atlantic

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF DYNAMICS;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 4544296556     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2004.05.013     Document Type: Article

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