Ground-truthing 11- to 12-kHz side-scan sonar imagery in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea: Part II: Probable diapirs on the Bear Island fan slide valley margins and the Voring Plateau

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 111-130

  Vogt, P R ^a   Crane, K ^b   Sundvor, E ^c   Hjelstuen, B O ^d   Gardner, J ^a   Bewles, F ^d   Cherkashev, G ^e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d A S Geoconsult ^*

^e VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DIAPIR; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SIDESCAN SONAR; SUBMARINE FAN;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0033451979     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003670050099     Document Type: Article

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