Geology of the United States' Seafloor

The View from GLORIA

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Geology of the United States' Seafloor

The View from GLORIA

Digital images of the entire deep-water area of the seafloor within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the United States have been systematically collected since 1984. They have been acquired by the long-range sidescan sonar instrument GLORIA. This spectacular dataset has provided a new insight into the structural evolution of the seafloor and the sedimentary processes that have modified it.

Geology of the United States' Seafloor presents new, definitive studies of the seafloor adjacent to the United States - the West Coast, East Coast, Alaskan margin, Gulf of Mexico, and Carribean - from GLORIA imagery, complementary seismic profiling, and magnetic surveys. Detailed geologic interpretation of the images has not been presented before, nor has any study included so comprehensive an area. Much new knowledge has been garnered from these GLORIA studies, and new concepts have emerged.

For example, the development of submarine fans, the formation of submarine canyons, sediment failure along continental slopes, and the tectonics of plate margins are now all more clearly understood. This book presents this information and also includes chapters on the GLORIA system and on the processing of the sidescan sonar images.

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English
Pages
374

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Geology of the United States' Seafloor: The View from GLORIA
August 13, 1996, Cambridge University Press
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First Sentence

"The sidescan technique is, as the name implies, a scanning process in which attention is directed successively at each point in the target field."

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Library of Congress
QE77 .G325 1996

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
374
Dimensions
11.1 x 8.8 x 1 inches
Weight
3.4 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7740667M
Internet Archive
geologyofuniteds0000unse
ISBN 10
052143310X
ISBN 13
9780521433105
LCCN
95046492
OCLC/WorldCat
33442686
Goodreads
3981273

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