Variations in bottom water activity at the southern Argentine margin: Indications from a seismic analysis of a continental slope terrace

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 405-417

  Gruetzner, Jens ^a   Uenzelmann Neben, Gabriele ^a   Franke, Dieter ^b  

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

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ARGENTINE MARGINS; BOTTOM WATER; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CONTOURITE DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS; DEEP WATER; DEEP WATER MASS; LATE MIOCENE; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; SEDIMENT WAVES; SEISMIC ANALYSIS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; TERRACE MORPHOLOGY; WATER DEPTH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

LANDFORMS;

BOTTOM WATER; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CONTOURITE; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITION; HYDROGRAPHY; MIOCENE; SEDIMENT WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE TERRACE; WATER FLOW;

ARGENTINA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 82655172442     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0252-0     Document Type: Article

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