Chapter 5 Deep-water Bottom Currents and their Deposits

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2008, Pages 59-81

  Shanmugam, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(08)10005-X     Document Type: Review

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