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Multibeam bathymetric data collected in St. George’s Bay, Newfoundland, show glacial and postglacial landforms in a 100-m-deep basin offshore from a barrier. Back-scatter data provide information on sediment lithology. Features undetected by previous conventional surveys include large bedforms on the surface of a barrier platform and submarine fans on its flanks. The data demonstrate that sediment transport processes are more complex than was previously believed. Multibeam bathymetric images are the sea-floor equivalents of air photographs. They can be used effectively to plan conventional acoustic surveys.
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Received: 16 February 1996 / Revision received: 4 September 1996
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Shaw, J., Courtney, R. & Currie, J. Marine geology of St. George’s Bay, Newfoundland, as interpreted from multibeam bathymetry and back-scatter data. Geo-Marine Letters 17, 188–194 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670050025
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670050025