The Weddell Sea: contourites and hemipelagites at the northern margin of the Weddell Gyre

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 289-303

  Pudsey, Carol J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 9644273461     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2002.022.01.21     Document Type: Article

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