Search for Bermuda's deep water caves

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 677, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 157-168

  Iliffe, Thomas M ^a   Kvitek, Rikk ^b   Blasco, Steve ^c   Blasco, Katie ^c   Covill, Robert ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d Tekmap Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anchialine caves; Pleistocene; Sea level; Seafloor mapping

Indexed keywords

CAVE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEEP WATER; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT TYPE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; POLYCHAETE; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; RESOLUTION; SEA LEVEL; SEAFLOOR; SONAR; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 80555149347     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0883-1     Document Type: Article

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