Recent submarine landslides on the continental slope of storfjorden and kveithola trough-mouth fans (north west barents sea)

Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 5th International Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 735-745

  Lucchi, Renata G ^a,b   Pedrosa, Maria T ^a   Camerlenghi, Angelo ^a,c   Urgeles, Roger ^d   De Mol, Ben ^d   Rebesco, Michele ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e National Institute of Bioinformatics   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barents sea; Debris flow; Ice stream; Kveithola; Storfjorden; Submarine landslide; Trough mouth fans

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; LITHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES;

BARENTS SEA; DEBRIS FLOWS; ICE STREAMS; KVEITHOLA; STORFJORDEN; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

EID: 84904104155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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