High-resolution bathymetry and acoustic geophysical data from Santa Maria di Leuca Cold Water Coral province (Northern Ionian Sea-Apulian continental slope)

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 326-344

  Savini, A ^a   Corselli, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic facies; Cold water corals; Coral mounds; Santa Maria di Leuca; Seafloor mapping; Seafloor morphologies

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; BOTTOM CURRENT; COLD-WATER CORALS; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CORAL GROWTH; DATA SETS; DOWNSLOPE; FAILURE EVENTS; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; IONIAN SEA; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER; PLEISTOCENE; SANTA MARIA DI LEUCA; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SEDIMENT TRAPPING; SHALLOW SEISMIC; SONAR DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; TECTONIC CONTROL; TURBIDITY CURRENT; UPPER SURFACE; VIDEO IMAGE; WATER DEPTH;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BATHYMETRY; DEPOSITS; MORPHOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SONAR; STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITY; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BATHYMETRY; BEDFORM; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COLD WATER; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORAL; DATA SET; ECHO SOUNDER; FACIES; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; MASS TRANSPORT; MULTIBEAM SONAR; PLEISTOCENE; RESOLUTION; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VIDEOGRAPHY; WATER DEPTH;

CAPO SANTA MARIA DI LEUCA; IONIAN SEA; ITALY; LECCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PUGLIA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77549088640     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.08.014     Document Type: Article

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