Near-bed particle deposition and resuspension in a cold-water coral mound area at the Southwest Rockall Trough margin, NE Atlantic

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1026-1038

  Mienis, F ^a   de Stigter, H C ^a   de Haas, H ^a   van Weering, T C E ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbonate mounds; Cold water corals; Pelagic sedimentation; Rockall Bank; Sediment trap; Tidal current

Indexed keywords

BED PARTICLES; BOTTOM CURRENTS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COLD-WATER CORALS; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DYNAMIC CONDITIONS; HIGH ACTIVITIES; HIGH CURRENTS; HYDRODYNAMIC REGIMES; INTERNAL WAVES; LONG TERMS; MASS FLUXES; N VALUES; ORGANIC MATTERS; PARTICLE FLUXES; PELAGIC SEDIMENTATION; RE SUSPENSIONS; RESUSPENDED MATERIALS; ROCKALL BANK; SEASONAL VARIABILITIES; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SUMMER MONTHS; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL FREQUENCIES; WAVE ACTIVITIES;

FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; LEAD; OCEAN CURRENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENT TRAPS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

COLD WATER; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DEPOSITION; INTERNAL WAVE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTICLE SETTLING; RESUSPENSION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRAP; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WAVE ACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ROCKALL TROUGH;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 67349090596     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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