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Knoll and Sediment Drift near Hudson Canyon

A Lowrie, B C Heezen

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |September 29, 1967
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    marine sediment dynamicscurrent flow effectsunderwater knoll structuressediment ridge formation

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