Bedforms, coastal-trapped waves, and scour process observations from the continental shelf of the northern Black Sea

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 473, Issue , 2011, Pages 165-178

  Trembanis, A ^a   Nebel, S ^a   Skarke, A ^a   Coleman, D F ^b   Ballard, R D ^b   Yankovsky, A ^c   Buynevich, I V ^d   Voronov, S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT; ARTIFACT PRESERVATIONS; COASTAL-TRAPPED WAVE; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; SEAFLOOR MORPHOLOGIES; SHELF SEDIMENTATION; VELOCITY AMPLITUDES;

SONAR;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ADVECTION; ANOXIC SEDIMENT; BEDFORM; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GIS; MARINE SEDIMENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SAND WAVE; SCOUR; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF SEDIMENT; SIDESCAN SONAR;

BLACK SEA;

EID: 79960086946     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2473(10)     Document Type: Article

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