Echo characters and recent sedimentary processes as indicated by high-resolution sub-bottom profiling in Ria de Vigo (NW Spain)

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-45

  Garcia Garcia A ^a   Garcia Gil S ^b   Vilas, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BEDFORM; ECHO SOUNDING; RIA; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; RIA DE VIGO; RIAS BAJAS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 12144289709     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-003-0156-8     Document Type: Article

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