One million years of climatic generated landslide events on the northwestern barents sea continental margin

Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 5th International Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 747-756

  Rebesco, Michele ^a   Pedrosa, Maria T ^b   Camerlenghi, Angelo ^b,c   Lucchi, Renata G ^a,b   Sauli, Chiara ^a   De Mol, Ben ^b   Madrussani, Gianni ^a   Urgeles, Roger ^d   Rossi, Giuliana ^a   Böhm, Gualtiero ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continental slope; NW barents sea margin; Sealloor morphology; Seismic reflection; Submarine landslide

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES;

BARENTS SEA; CLIMATIC PROCESS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SHALLOW LANDSLIDE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84904105361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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