Map helps unravel complexities of the southwestern Pacific Ocean

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Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-2

  Collot, Julien ^a   Vendé Leclerc, Myriam ^a   Rouillard, Pierrick ^a   Lafoy, Yves ^a   Géli, Louis ^b  

^a Geological Survey of New Caledonia   (New Caledonia)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; MAPPING METHOD;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 84855435110     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012EO010001     Document Type: Article

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