Sidescan sonar imagery of widespread fossil and active cold seeps along the central Chilean continental margin

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 489-499

  Klaucke, Ingo ^a   Weinrebe, Wilhelm ^a   Linke, Peter ^a   Kläschen, Dirk ^a   Bialas, Jörg ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BATHYMETRY; SEISMOLOGY; SONAR;

AUTHIGENIC CARBONATES; BIOGENIC ORIGINS; CHIRP SUB BOTTOMS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; REFLECTION SEISMIC; SIDESCAN SONAR IMAGERY; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; CARBONATE; COLD SEEP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLUID EXPULSION; FLUID FLOW; FOSSIL; GEOCHEMISTRY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SIDESCAN SONAR; SONAR IMAGERY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILE; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84869201474     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-012-0283-1     Document Type: Article

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