01.10.2005 15:36

Canyon and Channels Eos article

Looks like I am going crazy with title capitalization. Oh well. This is the first entry in the Science category. This is for anything non-Mars specific and hopefully lots of information relevant to my thesis! Here is another interesting Eos article:
  Cap Timiris Canyon: A Newly Discovered Channel System offshore of
  Mauritania
  S. Krastel el al
  Eos Transactions, 85-42, 19-Oct-2004, P 417,423
For starters, I did not know where Mauritania is situated. It is off the west coast of Africa, south of the Canary Islands. These authors mapped parts of a huge channel system that has no large present day river system at its head. They show a core and a small seismic line through the area. I have not read the article in detail to comment, but it looks promising. Could use a more in depth journal article with more and larger seismic lines and a much bigger multibeam figure!

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