Historic (1900) seafloor composition in the Belgian-Dutch part of the North Sea: A reconstruction based on calibrated visual sediment descriptions

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1043-1056

  Houziaux, Jean Sébastien ^a   Fettweis, Michael ^a   Francken, Frederic ^a   Van Lancker, Vera ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gustave gilson; Historical data; North sea; Reference situation; Seafloor integrity; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIVALVE; COASTAL WATER; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EPIFAUNA; GRAIN SIZE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SEAFLOOR; TRAWLING; TURBIDITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLISH CHANNEL; NORTH SEA;

OSTREA EDULIS; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 79957574178     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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