Large-scale sedimentation on the glacier-influenced Polar North Atlantic margins: Long-range side-scan sonar evidence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 3535-3538

  Dowdeswell, J A ^a   Kenyon, N H ^b   Elverhoi A ^c   Laberg, J S ^d   Hollender, F J ^e   Mienert, J ^e   Siegert, M J ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONES; GLACIERS; ICE PROBLEMS; SONAR; DEBRIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

LARGE-SCALE SEDIMENTATION; SIDE-SCAN SONAR EVIDENCE;

SEDIMENTATION; ICE;

CONTINENTAL MARGINS; DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIAL FAN; GLACIAL INFLUENCE; MARINE SEDIMENT; POLAR ENVIRONMENT; POLAR ZONES; SEDIMENTATION; SIDE SCAN SONAR;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTATION PATTERN; SIDE SCAN SONAR; SIMPLE MODELING; SUBMARINE CHANNEL;

EID: 0030426458     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03484     Document Type: Article

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