Alborán Basin, southern Spain-Part I: Geomorphology

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-73

  Munoz A ^a   Ballesteros, M ^b   Montoya, I ^c   Rivera, J ^b   Acosta, J ^b   Uchupi, E ^d  

^a Secretaría General de Pesca Marítima   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Albor n Basin; Carbonate caps; Carbonate hydrothermal mounds; Mass wasting; Multibeam bathymetry; Pockmarks; Seamounts; Submarine canyons

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE CAPS; CARBONATE MOUNDS; FAULTING; PLATES BOUNDARY; RIFTING;

BATHYMETRY; CATCHMENTS; EROSION; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BATHYMETRY; ECHO SOUNDING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MASS WASTING; MIOCENE; OXIDATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; POCKMARK; RELIEF; RIFTING; SEAMOUNT; SUBMARINE CANYON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; ALBORAN SEA; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 38049168772     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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