Giant sandwaves in the Hola glacial trough off Vesterålen, North Norway

Marine Geology

Volumn 267, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 36-54

  Bøe, Reidulv ^a   Bellec, Valérie K ^a   Dolan, Margaret F J ^a   Buhl Mortensen, Pål ^b   Buhl Mortensen, Lene ^b   Slagstad, Dag ^c   Rise, Leif ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

CAMPOD; MAREANO; modelling; multibeam bathymetry; sandwave; seismic stratigraphy; video image

Indexed keywords

CAMPOD; MAREANO; MODELLING; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; SANDWAVE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; VIDEO IMAGE;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SAND; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING;

BATHYMETRY;

BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; BIOCLASTIC SEDIMENT; BOTTOM CURRENT; CORAL REEF; DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EUSTACY; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIATION; SAND WAVE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TROUGH; VIDEOGRAPHY; WATER DEPTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; VESTERALEN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 70350573508     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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