Pockforms: An evaluation of pockmark-like seabed features on the Landes Plateau, Bay of Biscay

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 207-219

  Iglesias, Jorge ^a,b   Ercilla, Gemma ^a   García Gil, Soledad ^b   Judd, Alan G ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c Alan Judd Partnership   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR GUNS; BAY OF BISCAY; DEEP FAULT; GRAVITY FLOWS; LATE MIOCENE; LOW ENERGIES; MIGRATION PATHWAY; MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER; QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS; SEABED SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; SHALLOW GAS;

OCEAN STRUCTURES;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

FLUID DYNAMICS; POCKMARK; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBSIDENCE; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 77952950356     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-009-0182-2     Document Type: Article

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