Internal structure of a contourite drift generated by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Koenitz, Dorit ^a,b   White, Nicky ^a   Nick McCave, I ^a   Hobbs, Richard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PGS Geophysical AS   (Norway)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contourite drift

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650510602     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001799     Document Type: Article

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