Acoustic backscatter and sediment textural properties of inner shelf sands, northeastern Gulf of Mexico Academic Article

abstract

• The relationship between spatial variations of the properties of sea-floor sediments and acoustic backscatter from the surface of the sea floor on the continental shelf off of Panama City, Florida, USA, is investigated using surficial sediment grab samples and digital side-scan sonar data. Acoustic backscatter strength has a high, direct correlation with the mean grain size of the sediments. Acoustic backscatter strength also correlates directly with the carbonate content of the sediments, particularly in medium- and coarse-sand facies, because large, irregularly shaped, carbonate particles affect both the mean grain size of the sediments and the roughness of the surface of the sea floor.

authors

• Slowey, Niall

published proceedings

• GEO-MARINE LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Davis, K. S., Slowey, N. C., Stender, I. H., Fiedler, H., Bryant, W. R., & Fechner, G.

citation count

• 21

complete list of authors

• Davis, KS||Slowey, NC||Stender, IH||Fiedler, H||Bryant, WR||Fechner, G

publication date

• September 1996

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Geo-Marine Letters: an international journal of marine geology  Journal

keywords

• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3705 Geology
• 3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/BF01204520

start page

• 273

end page

• 278

volume

• 16

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01204520