Flank collapse and large-scale landsliding in the Cape Verde Islands, off West Africa

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Masson, D G ^a   Le Bas, T P ^a   Grevemeyer, I ^b   Weinrebe, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cape Verde; Landslide; Swath bathymetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749123627     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC001983     Document Type: Article

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