The behaviour of deep-sea sediments under the impact of nodule mining processes

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 17-18, 2001, Pages 3609-3627

  Becker, Hermann J ^a   Grupe, Bernd ^a   Oebius, Horst U ^a   Liu, F ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b COMRA ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION; MANGANESE NODULES; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

DEEP-OCEAN MINING;

OCEAN STRUCTURES;

DEEP SEA; MINING; RESUSPENSION; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035665624     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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