Giant dune morphologies and dynamics in a deep continental shelf environment: Example of the banc du four (Western Brittany, France)

Marine Geology

Volumn 346, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-30

  Franzetti, Marcaurelio ^a   Le Roy, Pascal ^a   Delacourt, Christophe ^a   Garlan, Thierry ^b   Cancouët, Romain ^a   Sukhovich, Alexey ^a   Deschamps, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^b SHOM   (France)

Author keywords

Dune; Dynamic; French continental shelf; Morphology; Sandbank; Sandwave

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DUNE; POWER-LAW CORRELATIONS; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP; SANDBANK; SANDWAVE; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL REGRESSION;

DYNAMICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

MORPHOLOGY;

BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DUNE; EVOLUTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MIGRATION ROUTE; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BRETAGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 84883757938     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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