Habitats of the Cap De Creus Continental Shelf and Cap De Creus Canyon, Northwestern Mediterranean

Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 457-469

  Lo Iacono, Claudio ^a   Orejas, Covadonga ^b   Gori, Andrea ^c   Gili, Josep Maria ^c   Requena, Susana ^c   Puig, Pere ^c   Ribó, Marta ^c  

^a CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continental Shelf; Geomorphology; Habitat mapping; Northwestern Mediterranean; Submarine Canyon; Swath bathymetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883461551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00032-3     Document Type: Chapter

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