Seabed Character and Habitats of a Rocky Antarctic Coastline: Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 329-337

  O'Brien, Philip E ^a   Stark, Jonathan S ^b   Johnstone, Glenn ^b   Smith, Jodie ^a   Riddle, Martin J ^b  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Coast; Geomorphology; Habitat; Macroalgae; Multibeam bathymetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884459263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00020-7     Document Type: Chapter

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