Contemporary sediment-transport processes in submarine canyons

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 53-77

  Puig, Pere ^a   Palanques, Albert ^a   Martín, Jacobo ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bottom trawling; Dense shelf water cascading; Hyperpycnal flows; Internal waves; Sediment failures; Turbidity currents

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TRAWLING; DENSE SHELF-WATER CASCADING; HYPERPYCNAL FLOWS; INTERNAL WAVES; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

DEPOSITS; FISHERIES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINES;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEEP SEA; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERNAL WAVE; RESUSPENSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE CANYON; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA; SEDIMENT;

ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84891878357     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-010213-135037     Document Type: Article

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