Multiple bottom-simulating reflections in the Black Sea: Potential proxies of past climate conditions

Marine Geology

Volumn 227, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 163-176

  Popescu, Irina ^a,b   De Batist, Marc ^a   Lericolais, Gilles ^c   Nouzé, Hervé ^c   Poort, Jeffrey ^a   Panin, Nicolae ^b   Versteeg, Wim ^a   Gillet, Hervé ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEO ECOLOGY GEOECOMAR   (Romania)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Bottom simulating reflections; Deep sea fan; Gas; Gas hydrates; Seismic data

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-SIMULATING REFLECTIONS; DEEP-SEA FAN; SEISMIC DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS HYDRATES; LITHOLOGY; METHANE; SEISMOLOGY;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

GAS HYDRATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 33644751227     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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