Fine-scale volume heterogeneity in a mixed sand/mud sediment off Fort Walton Beach, FL

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 471-487

  Briggs, Kevin B ^a   Reed, Allen H ^a   Jackson, Darrell R ^b   Tang, Dajun ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); conductivity; heterogeneity; sediment density; sediment sound speed

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONDUCTIVITY; CONDUCTIVITY PROBE; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; MUD DEPOSIT; MULTIPLE SCALE; POWER-SPECTRA; QUARTZ SAND; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENT DENSITIES; SEDIMENT DENSITY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SOUND SPEED;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM; PROBES; QUARTZ; SPEED; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 77956339733     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2010.2041834     Document Type: Article

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