Changes in seabed morphology, mud temperature and free gas venting at the Håkon Mosby mud volcano, offshore northern Norway, over the time period 2003-2006

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 157-167

  Foucher, Jean Paul ^a   Dupré, Stéphanie ^b   Scalabrin, Carla ^a   Feseker, Tomas ^c   Harmegnies, François ^a   Nouzé, Hervé ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARENTS SEA; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONDUCTIVE COOLING; FLUID FLOW; FREE GAS; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; HIGH DEFINITION; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MUD FLOW; MUD VOLCANOES; SEABED MAPPING; SEABED MORPHOLOGY; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SHORT TIME INTERVALS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TIME PERIODS; TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILES; WATER DEPTH;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

VOLCANOES;

ADVECTION; BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRATER; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; MUD; MUD VOLCANO; MUDFLOW; SEAFLOOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VENTING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; HAKON MOSBY MUD VOLCANO; NORWAY;

EID: 77952952714     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-010-0193-z     Document Type: Article

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