The Moira Mounds, small cold-water coral mounds in the Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic: Part B-Evaluating the impact of sediment dynamics through high-resolution ROV-borne bathymetric mapping

Marine Geology

Volumn 282, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 65-78

  Foubert, A ^a   Huvenne, V A I ^b   Wheeler, A ^c   Kozachenko, M ^c   Opderbecke, J ^d   Henriet, J P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Carbonate mounds; Cold water corals; Deep water bedforms; High resolution multibeam ROV bathymetric mapping; Sediment dynamics

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE MOUNDS; COLD-WATER CORALS; DEEPWATER; HIGH RESOLUTION; SEDIMENT DYNAMICS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; CARBONATION; FEEDBACK; FLUID DYNAMICS; MAPPING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BEDFORM; CARBONATE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COLD WATER; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORAL; DATA SET; DEEP WATER; EROSION RATE; GROWTH; HYDRODYNAMICS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT WAVE; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); IRELAND; PORCUPINE SEABIGHT;

ANTHOZOA; BELGICA; MOIRA;

EID: 79953163871     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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