Searching the Rhone delta channel in Lake Geneva since François Alphonse FOREL

Archives des Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 103-118

  Girardclos, Stéphanie ^a   Hilbe, Michael ^b   Corella, Juan Pablo ^a,c   Loizeau, Jean Luc ^a   Kremer, Katrina ^a   Delsontro, Tonya ^b,d   Arantegui, Angel ^e   Moscariello, Andréa ^a   Arlaud, Frédéric ^a   Akhtman, Yosef ^f   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^b,g   Lemmin, Ulrich ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Canyon; Channel; Lake Geneva; L man; Multibeam bathymetry; Rhone delta; Submersible; Underflow

Indexed keywords

CANYON; CHANNEL; LAKE GENEVAS; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; RHONE DELTA; UNDERFLOWS;

BATHYMETRY; CATCHMENTS; HAZARDS; RUNOFF; SUBMERSIBLES;

LAKES;

EID: 84880162639     PISSN: 1661464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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