Seeing the Seafloor: Discoveries of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer Multibeam Systems
The detailed seafloor topography around Antarctica was virtually unknown until RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer and other ships started to collect multibeam swath measurements in the 1990s. These new, high-resolution bathymetric data allowed the creation of topographic maps of the Antarctic continental shel...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Oceanography Society
2012-09-01
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| Series: | Oceanography |
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| Online Access: | http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/25-3_nitsche.pdf |