A submarine canyon as a climate archive - Interaction of the antarctic intermediate water with the mar del plata canyon (southwest atlantic)

Marine Geology

Volumn 341, Issue , 2013, Pages 46-57

  Voigt, Ines ^a   Henrich, Ruediger ^a   Preu, Benedict M ^a,e   Piola, Alberto R ^b,c   Hanebuth, Till J J ^a   Schwenk, Tilmann ^a   Chiessi, Cristiano M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Servicio de Hidrografia Naval   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e Chevron North Sea Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic Intermediate Water; Drift deposition; El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Southwest Atlantic; Submarine Canyon

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; CONTINUOUS DEPOSITION; CONTOURITE DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS; DRIFT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SOUTHWEST ATLANTIC; SUBMARINE CANYON; UPPER OCEAN CIRCULATION;

DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILT; SUBMARINES;

SEDIMENTS;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; BIOTURBATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EPISODIC EVENT; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; NEPHELOID LAYER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SILT; SUBMARINE CANYON; UPPER OCEAN;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; MAR DEL PLATA HARBOR; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 84879253718     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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