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TOBI side-scan sonar raster image mosaics of submarine canyons off Morocco

This dataset consists of image mosaics of submarine canyons off Morocco collected using TOBI side-scan sonar on RV Maria S. Merian cruise MSM32, which occurred between 25 September and 30 October 2013. Imaging was conducted using a TOBI deep tow sidescan sonar, a high-resolution 2D seismic system consisting of a 150m long 88 channel digital streamer and a standard GI-gun. This cruise formed the field component of NERC Discovery Science project ‘How do submarine landslides disintegrate and form long run-out turbidity currents in the deep ocean, and how erosive are these flows?’ The study aimed to generate the first ever field dataset tracing a large-scale submarine landslide and its associated sediment-gravity flow from source-to-sink. This resulting dataset will aim to answer three important science questions: 1) How quickly do large submarine landslides disintegrate into long run-out sediment flows, and how is this process influenced by shape of the slope? 2) How efficiently do landslides remove failed material, i.e. what proportion of landslide debris is deposited on the slope and how much transforms into a flow that is transported distally? 3) How much sediment is incorporated into the flow through seafloor erosion, and where does most of this erosion take place? The Discovery Science project was composed of Standard Grant reference NE/J012955/1 and was led by Professor Russell Barry Wynn (National Oceanography Centre, Science and Technology). Funding ran from 07 June 2013 to 06 June 2014. Data have been received by BODC as raw files from the RRS James Cook and are available on request from BODC enquiries.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_TOBI_image_data
Date (Publication)
2019-02-13
Date (Creation)
2018-11-09
Date (Revision)
2018-11-09
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6872
Originator
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Unknown ( Unknown )
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Custodian
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
Vertical Coverages
  • unknown
SeaDataNet PDV
  • Side-scan sonar
INSPIRE themes
  • Land cover
  • Geology
Use limitation
Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2013-09-25
End date
2013-10-30
Supplemental Information

Publication year: 2015-04-09

Publication title: The Eugen Seibold coral mounds offshore western Morocco: oceanographic and bathymetric boundary conditions of a newly discovered cold-water coral province

Publication authors: Silke Glogowski, Wolf-Christian Dullo, Peter Feldens, Volker Liebetrau, Jonas von Reumont, Veit Hühnerbach, Sebastian Krastel, Russell B. Wynn, Sascha Flögel

Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
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dataset Dataset
Statement

This dataset was created by scientists for 'How do submarine landslides disintegrate and form long run-out turbidity currents in the deep ocean, and how erosive are these flows?' project, which ran from 2013 to 2015, following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into one of the schemas of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/information_technology/data_processing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves.

Instrument(s) used to collect data: sidescan sonars.

File identifier
cc4b211bef8a56f89022ecc8be148d6b XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2019-02-13T06:31:33
Metadata standard name
MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
Metadata standard version
Version 2.3.8
Point of contact
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Polly Hadžiabdić ( Head of BODC Requests Team )
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
 
 

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