Recent transfer of coastal sediments to the Laurentian Channel, Lower St. Lawrence Estuary (Eastern Canada), through submarine canyon and fan systems

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 191-200

  Gagné, Hubert ^a   Lajeunesse, Patrick ^a   St Onge, Guillaume ^b   Bolduc, Andrée ^c  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DEFORESTATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINES; TURBIDITY;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; EXPONENTIAL INCREASE; LAWRENCE ESTUARIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTI-BEAM SONAR DATA; SEDIMENT/WATER INTERFACES; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL DATA; SUB-BOTTOM PROFILES;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; MULTIBEAM SONAR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUBMARINE FAN; TURBIDITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; LAURENTIAN CHANNEL; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE ESTUARY;

EID: 67349111804     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-009-0138-6     Document Type: Article

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