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Core samples from submarine canyons, Rv. Bzibi, Georgia
Data set information
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General | |
Data holding centre | Scientific-Industrial Center of Research and Governance of Coastal Formation Processes SAKNAPIRDATSVA |
Country | Georgia |
Time period | 1975 |
Ongoing | No |
Geographical area | Georgian Black Sea, Abkhazia, Rv. Bzibi dynamical system (cell) |
Observations | |
Parameters | Lithology; Bathymetry and Elevation |
Instruments | Rock corers |
Description | |
Summary | The project investigates the rate of impact of submarine canyons on the budget of sediment delivered to the coastal zone. Research reveals an existing relationship between accumulation of sediment masses in the heads of two nearest to the rivers mouth canyons and their periodical slumping down the slope. |
Originators | Scientific-Industrial Center of Research and Governance of Coastal Formation Processes SAKNAPIRDATSVA |
Availability | |
Organisation | Scientific-Industrial Center of Research and Governance of Coastal Formation Processes SAKNAPIRDATSVA |
Availability | Organisation |
Contact | Zurab Savaneli (Head of Dep. of Geoinformatic) |
Address | Scientific-Industrial Center of Research and Governance of Coastal Formation Processes SAKNAPIRDATSVA |
Telephone | +995 32 324651 |
Facsimile | +99532324655 |
zsavaneli@hotmail.com | |
Administration | |
Collating centre | Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Centre of Relations with UNESCO Oceanological Research Centre and GeoDNA (UNESCO) |
Local identifier | 39003024 |
Global identifier | 1735 |
Last revised | 2009-01-27 |