International year of planet earth 5: Applications of seafloor mapping on the canadian atlantic continental shelf

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-94

  Todd, Brian J ^a   Shaw, John ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED FORMS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; ENERGY DEVELOPMENT; ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE; GLACIAL MAXIMA; HABITAT MAPPING; HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MARINE PROTECTED AREA; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; MULTIBEAM SONAR; OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT; PLANET EARTH; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEAFLOOR SUBSTRATES; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT MOBILITY; SHELF EDGES; TIDAL RANGES; WATER DEPTH;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SONAR; TIDAL POWER; TIDES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

MAPPING;

BEDFORM; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRONTIER REGION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL SEDIMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; HISTORICAL RECORD; MULTIBEAM SONAR; PROTECTED AREA; QUATERNARY; RESOLUTION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SHELF BREAK; TIDAL POWER; TIDAL RANGE; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC COAST [CANADA]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; CANADA;

EID: 77951282123     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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