Large-scale bedforms along a tideless outer shelf setting in the western Mediterranean

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1802-1813

  Lo Iacono, Claudio ^a   Guillén, Jorge ^b   Puig, Pere ^b   Ribó, Marta ^b   Ballesteros, Maria ^c   Palanques, Albert ^b   lí Farrán, Marcel ^b   Acosta, Juan ^c  

^a CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continental shelf; Geomorphology; Subaqueous dunes; Swath mapping; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DUNE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOBILIZATION; SEAFLOOR; SHELF BREAK; SWATH BATHYMETRY; WAVELENGTH;

CASTELLON; COLUMBRETES; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SPAIN;

EID: 77957596289     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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