Contour currents and contourite drifts

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 63, Issue C, 2011, Pages 149-214

  Faugères, Jean Claude ^a   Mulder, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53000-4.00003-2     Document Type: Book

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