Evolution of sand waves in the Messina Strait, Italy

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 392-398

  Santoro, Vincenza Cinzia ^a   Amore, Elena ^a   Cavallaro, Luca ^a   De Lauro, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Morphodynamics; Morphometric analysis; Sand waves

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURVEYS; TSUNAMIS;

BEDFORMS; MESSINA STRAIT, ITALY; MORPHODYNAMICS; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; SAND WAVES;

SAND;

EID: 4944253555     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-003-0087-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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