Sediment dynamics and post-glacial evolution of the continental shelf around the Blanes submarine canyon head (NW Mediterranean)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 28-46

  Durán, Ruth ^a   Canals, Miquel ^a   Lastras, Galderic ^a   Micallef, Aaron ^a   Amblas, David ^a   Pedrosa Pàmies, Rut ^a   Sanz, José Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED SEDIMENTS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DENSE SHELF-WATER CASCADING; HIGH ENERGY PROCESS; MORPHOLOGICAL DATA; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; POST-GLACIAL EVOLUTION; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES;

BACKSCATTERING; BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DEPOSITION; DIGITAL STORAGE; EROSION; FLOODS; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; SUBMARINES;

SEDIMENTS;

BACKSCATTER; COAST; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DISPERSAL; GEOACCUMULATION; GLACIAL LANDFORM; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

CATALONIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST); SPAIN; TORDERA RIVER;

EID: 84888019175     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.031     Document Type: Article

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