Methane-Related Carbonate Cementation of Marine Sediments and Related Macroalgal Coralligenous Assemblages in the Northern Adriatic Sea

Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 185-200

  Gordini, Emiliano ^a   Falace, Annalisa ^b   Kaleb, Sara ^b   Donda, Federica ^a   Marocco, Ruggero ^b   Tunis, Giorgio ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

CH4 seepage; Geochemistry; Macroalgal taxa; Methane related carbonate cementation; Multibeam; Northern Adriatic Sea; Quaternary; Rock outcrop; Sidescan sonar; Subbottom profiler Chirp

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876536384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00009-8     Document Type: Chapter

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