The Columbia Channel-levee system: a fan drift in the southern Brazil Basin

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 223-238

  Faugeres J C ^a   Lima, A Franca ^b   Masse L ^a   Zaragosi, S ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 56349169694     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2002.022.01.16     Document Type: Article

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