Chapter 24 Palaeoceanographic Significance of Contourite Drifts

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2008, Pages 511-535

  Knutz, P C ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

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