Geohazard studies offshore the Faroe Islands: Slope instability, bottom currents and sub-seabed sediment mobilisation

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 4, 2004, Pages 57-60

  Nielsen, Tove ^a   Kuijpers, Antoon ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS;

EID: 4143068033     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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