Long-term development and current status of the Barcelona continental shelf: A source-to-sink approach

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1779-1800

  Liquete, C ^a   Canals, M ^a   Lastras, G ^a   Amblas, D ^a   Urgeles, R ^a   De Mol, B ^a   De Batist, M ^b   Hughes Clarke, J E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barcelona continental shelf; Human impacts; Late Quaternary sea level change; Multibeam; Neotectonics; Northwestern Mediterranean Sea; Prodelta; River basins; Sediment waves; Seismic reflection; Shelf sedimentary environments; Source to sink; Spain

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CURRENT; FAULT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; RIVER BASIN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; BESOS RIVER; CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LLOBREGAT RIVER; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST); SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TORDERA RIVER;

EID: 34447106270     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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