The Middle Miocene to Recent Davis Strait Drift Complex: Implications for Arctic-Atlantic water exchange

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 419-426

  Nielsen, Tove ^a   Andersen, Claus ^a   Knutz, Paul C ^a   Kuijpers, Antoon ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTOURITE DRIFTS; DAVIS STRAIT; DEEPWATER CURRENTS; FIRST-ORDER; LABRADOR SEA; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MULTI-CHANNEL; PLIOCENE; REFLECTION PATTERNS; REFLECTION SEISMIC; TECTONIC MOVEMENTS; WATER DEPTH; WATER EXCHANGE; WEST GREENLAND;

MOORING;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTOURITE; MIOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; WATER DEPTH; WATER EXCHANGE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DAVIS STRAIT; GREENLAND; LABRADOR SEA; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 82655173977     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0245-z     Document Type: Article

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