RECENT VERTICAL MOVEMENTS ON THE FAR EASTERN SEA FLOORS,

Abstract

Within the limits of the Far Eastern coastal seas and the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean there is a wide development of abrasional-accumulational planation surfaces. Information on the morphology and morphometry of the planation surfaces has been obtained as result of detailed work carried out by an expeditionary vessel with recording echo-sounders. From the echograms the edge-depth and slope of the planation surfaces were determined and mean values of these characteristics were calculated, both for the area of the explorations as a whole and also for the different seas and different sectors of the coastal shelf. Analysis of all the data premitted the demonstration of considerable differences in the edge-depth and slope of the planation surfaces, differences testifying to the presence of vertical movements of the crust.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0605904

Entities

People

  • V. F. Kanaev

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Demonstrations
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Seabed
  • Sonar

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Oceanography.