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Since the development of high-resolution precision echo sounders in the 1950s, marine geologists have been characterizing different types of sea floor on the character of the echo return. Short-ping (less than 5 msec) high-frequency (3.5–12 kHz) echograms have been used to provide much information on the nature of the microtopography and the sediment stratification and have been used as a basis for interpreting the erosional and depositonal processes acting in the deep sea (Heezen et al., 1959; Heezen et al., 1966; Hollister, 1967; Schneider et al., 1967; Heezen and Johnson, 1969; Hollister and Heezen, 1972).
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Flood, R.D., Hollister, C.D. (1974). Current-Controlled Topography on the Continental Margin Off the Eastern United States. In: Burk, C.A., Drake, C.L. (eds) The Geology of Continental Margins. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01141-6_14
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