Different types of sediment gravity flows detected in the Var submarine canyon (northwestern Mediterranean Sea)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 106, Issue , 2012, Pages 138-153

  Khripounoff, A ^a   Crassous, P ^a   Lo Bue, N ^b   Dennielou, B ^a   Silva Jacinto, R ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; CANYON WALLS; CARBON STORAGE; CURRENT PEAK; CURRENT SPEED; CURRENT VELOCITY; DEEP-SEA FLOOR; DOWNWARD PARTICLE FLUXES; GRAVITY FLOWS; HIGH-FREQUENCY CURRENT; HYPERPYCNAL; LOW VELOCITIES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENT GRAVITY FLOW; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SUBMARINE CANYON;

FLOODS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TURBIDITY; VALUE ENGINEERING;

SEDIMENTS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CURRENT VELOCITY; DEEP SEA; FLOODING; GRAVITY FLOW; MOORING SYSTEM; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE CANYON; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST); VAR CANYON;

EID: 84868364741     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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