Chapter 1 Contourite Research. A Field in Full Development

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rebesco, M ^a   Camerlenghi, A ^b   Van Loon, A J ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

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EID: 56349170764     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(08)10001-2     Document Type: Review

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