Suspended Particulate Loads and Transports in the Nepheloid Layer of the Abyssal Atlantic Ocean

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 23, Issue C, 1977, Pages 155-172

  Biscaye, Pierre E ^a   Eittreim, Stephen L ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 77956814557     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(08)70556-9     Document Type: Article

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