Contourites offshore Pantelleria Island (Sicily Channel, Mediterranean Sea): Depositional, erosional and biogenic elements

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 481-493

  Martorelli, Eleonora ^a   Petroni, Giorgia ^b   Chiocci, Francesco Latino ^b   Bosman, Alessandro ^c   Calarco, Marilena ^c   Conte, Aida Maria ^c   Macelloni, Leonardo ^c   Salusti, Ettore ^c   Sposato, Andrea ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DEPOSITION; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; LEVANTINE INTERMEDIATE WATERS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

EROSION;

BANK EROSION; BATHYMETRY; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CONTOURITE; CORAL; DEPOSITION; ESCARPMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEOTECTONICS; OUTFLOW; SCOUR; SEAMOUNT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER MASS;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PANTELLERIA; SICILY; TRAPANI;

ANTHOZOA; MADREPORA OCULATA;

EID: 82655162253     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0244-0     Document Type: Article

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