Marine geology of St. George's Bay, Newfoundland, as interpreted from multibeam bathymetry and back-scatter data

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 188-194

  Shaw, John ^a   Courtney, Robert C ^a   Currie, James R ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER PLATFORM; BATHYMETRY; BEDFORM; BEDFORMS; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE FAN; SUBMARINE GEOMORPHOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND, ST GEORGES BAY;

EID: 0031405305     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003670050025     Document Type: Article

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