Large-scale sediment bodies and superimposed bedforms on the continental shelf close to the strait of Gibraltar: Interplay of complex oceanographic conditions and physiographic constraints

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 663-679

  Lobo, F J ^a   Maldonado, A ^a   Noormets, R ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Continental shelf; Gulf of cadiz; Sediment banks; Shallow water sediment transport; Submarine bedforms

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; GULF OF CADIZ; SHALLOW-WATER; SHALLOW-WATER SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL MECHANICS; SUBMARINES; TIDAL POWER; WIND POWER;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BEDFORM; CONTINENTAL SHELF; MARINE SEDIMENT; SANDBANK; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHALLOW WATER; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF CADIZ; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 77952269591     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1962     Document Type: Article

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