Submerged Reefs and Aeolian Dunes as Inherited Habitats, Point Cloates, Carnarvon Shelf, Western Australia

Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 397-407

  Nichol, Scott L ^a   Anderson, Tara J ^a   Battershill, Chris ^b   Brooke, Brendan P ^a  

^a Marine and Coastal Environment Group   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Continental shelf; Epibenthic; Multibeam sonar; Ningaloo Reef; Submerged shoreline

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884352550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00027-X     Document Type: Chapter

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