Pleistocene glacial marine sedimentary environments at the eastern Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean

Polarforschung

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-137

  Matthiessen, Jens ^a   Niessen, Frank ^a   Stein, Ruediger ^a   David Naafs, B ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BULK DENSITY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; LITHOFACIES; MUD; P-WAVE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; MENDELEYEV RIDGE;

EID: 78149306433     PISSN: 00322490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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