Hemipelagic deposits on the Mendeleev and northwestern Alpha submarine Ridges in the Arctic Ocean: Acoustic stratigraphy, depositional environment and an inter-ridge correlation calibrated by the ACEX results

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 149-171

  Bruvoll, Vibeke ^a   Kristoffersen, Yngve ^a   Coakley, Bernard J ^b   Hopper, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic stratigraphy; Arctic Ocean; Depositional environment; Inter ridge correlation; Mendeleev and Alpha Ridges; Paleocirculation; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEPOSITS; FERROELECTRIC RAM; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; ARCTIC OCEAN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HEMIPELAGIC DEPOSITS; MENDELEEV AND ALPHA RIDGES; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC DATUM; PALEOCIRCULATION; SCIENTIFIC DRILLING;

STRATIGRAPHY;

DEBRIS FLOW; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS WASTING; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SUBMARINE RIDGE; TECTONICS;

ALPHA RIDGE; ARCTIC OCEAN; MENDELEYEV RIDGE;

EID: 78650075278     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11001-010-9094-9     Document Type: Article

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