Morphology of late Quaternary submarine landslides along the U.S. Atlantic continental margin

Marine Geology

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 4-15

  Twichell, David C ^a   Chaytor, Jason D ^b   ten Brink, Uri S ^a   Buczkowski, Brian ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; continental margin; landslides; sediments; slope processes

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; HATTERAS; LANDSLIDE DEPOSITS; LATE QUATERNARY; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; NEW ENGLAND; QUATERNARY MATERIALS; SALT DOMES; SEA FLOOR; SLOPE PROCESSES; SOURCE AREA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; TRIGGERING MECHANISM;

BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DEPOSITS; DOMES; EARTHQUAKES; LANDSLIDES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALT DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TSUNAMIS;

SLOPE PROTECTION;

BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; QUATERNARY; SALT DOME; SEAFLOOR; SLOPE FAILURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650149361     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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