Deep Seabed Mining Environment: Preliminary Engineering and Environmental Assessment

Proceedings of the ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 8-13

  Chung, Jin S ^a   Schriever, Gerd ^b   Sharma, Rahul ^c   Yamazaki, Tetsuo ^d  

^a ISOPE   (United States)

^b BIOLAB Forchungsinstitut   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep ocean; Deep seabed; Disturbance test; Environment assessment by scientists and engineers; Manganese nodules; Mining

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SEDIMENTS;

WATER COLUMN;

MINING ENGINEERING;

EID: 0142217132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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