Hummock fields in the Norway Basin and Eastern Iceland Plateau: Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities?

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 531-534

  Vogt, Peter R ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; DENSITY INVERSION; OCEANIC REGIONS; PLEISTOCENE; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; SANDY CLAYS; SEA FLOOR;

GEOLOGY;

BOTTOM CURRENT; INSTABILITY; MAPPING METHOD; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEAFLOOR; SONAR IMAGERY; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; GRAVITY; HUMMOCK FIELD; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY; SEA FLOOR; SIDE SCAN SONAR; SIDESCAN SONAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

ICELAND; NORWAY; ICELAND PLATEAU; NORWAY BASIN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0030669924     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0531:HFITNB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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