Ground-truthing 11- to 12-kHz side-scan sonar imagery in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea: Part I: Pockmarks on the Vestnesa Ridge and Storegga slide margin

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 97-110

  Vogt, P R ^a   Gardner, J ^a   Crane, K ^b   Sundvor, E ^c   Bowles, F ^a   Cherkashev, G ^d  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; POCKMARK; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SIDESCAN SONAR;

FRAM STRAIT; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0033369299     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003670050098     Document Type: Article

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