An insight into the "Fifty-Fathom-Flat" off India's west coast

Geomorphology

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 465-470

  Mukhopadhyay, Ranadhir ^a   Fernandes, William A ^a   Naik, Yogesh S ^a   Karisiddaiah, S M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Fifty Fathom Flat (FFF); Shelf break; Swath bathymetry; Tectonic origin; WCMI

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; MULTIBEAM SONAR; PETROLEUM; RIFTING; SHELF BREAK; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE PLATEAU; SWATH BATHYMETRY; TECTONIC SETTING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77952887092     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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