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On the origin of red sea submarine canyons

Observations by submersible

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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, D-8131, Seewiesen

    H. W. Fricke

  2. Geologisches Institut der Universität, D-2000, Hamburg

    G. Landmann

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We thank the Israeli Navy for access to their former military harbour at Sharm El Sheick. The Sinai deep-water survey was supported by a grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg to the senior author. We acknowledge further financial support from the magazine GEO and our friend D. Reimann, Berlin. Dr. H. Bäcker, Hannover and Prof. D. Meischner, Göttingen kindly red a first draft of the manuscript.

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Fricke, H.W., Landmann, G. On the origin of red sea submarine canyons. Naturwissenschaften 70, 195–197 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01047561

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