Las Hijas seamounts-the next Canary Island?

Terra Nova

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 121-125

  Rihm, Roland ^a,d   Jacobs, Colin L ^b   Krastel, Sebastian ^a   Schmincke, Hans Ulrich ^a   Alibes, Barbara ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; SEAMOUNT; SIDESCAN SONAR; VOLCANISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032417963     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1998.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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