Digital image treatment applied to ichnological analysis of marine core sediments

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Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-44

  Dorador, Javier ^a   Rodríguez Tovar, Francisco J ^a   Hernandez Molina, F J ^b   Stow, D A V ^b   Alvarez Zarikian, C ^b   Acton, G ^b   Bahr, A ^b   Balestra, Barbara ^b   Ducassou, E ^b   Flood, R ^b   Flores, J A ^b   Furota, S ^b   Grunert, P ^b   Hodell, D ^b   Jimenez Espejo, F ^b   Kim, J K ^b   Krissek, L ^b   Kuroda, J ^b   Li, B ^b   Llave, E ^b   Lofi, J ^b   Lourens, L ^b   Miller, M ^b   Nanayama, F ^b   Nishida, N ^b   Richter, C ^b   Roque, C ^b   Pereira, H ^b   Sanchez Goni M ^b   Sierro Sanchez, F ^b   Singh, A ^b   Sloss, C ^b   Takashimizu, Y ^b   Tzanova, A ^b   Voelker, A ^b   Williams, T ^b   Xuan, C ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Digital images treatment; Expedition 339; Ichnological analysis; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program; Marine core deposits; Site U1385

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CORE ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; DIGITAL IMAGE; ICHNOFABRIC; ICHNOLOGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; TRACE FOSSIL;

EID: 84892396212     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10347-013-0383-z     Document Type: Article

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