The large-scale environmental impact experiment DISCOL - Reflection and foresight

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 17-18, 2001, Pages 3869-3882

  Thiel, Hjalmar ^a,c   Schriever, Gerd ^b   Ahnert, Ahmed ^b   Bluhm, Hartmut ^a   Borowski, Christian ^a   Vopel, Kay ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BIOLAB Forschungsinstitut   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE NODULES; MINING; REFLECTION; SAMPLING;

DEEP-SEA RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

DEEP SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MINING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035662460     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00071-6     Document Type: Article

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