The R/V meteor cruise leg M44/1 in February 1999 in the sea of Marmara: The first multibeam bathymetric study and analysis of methane in sediment and water columns

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 461-480

  Kuşçu, Ismail ^a   Halbach, Peter ^b   Inthorn, Maik ^c   Kuhn, Thomas ^d   Seifert, Richard ^e  

^a GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION   (Turkey)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active faulting; inarcik basin; Methane emanations; North Anatolina Fault Zone; Sea floor morphology; Sea of Marmara; Tekirda ridge

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749153659     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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