Texas A&M University
Department of Oceanography
Newly discovered seafloor channels
formed by super-salty, flowing water
To the untrained eye, the surface of the seafloor might
look like plain mud.
But not to the Texas A&M University oceanographers
and their colleagues who noticed a series of linear "channels"
in the wall of a basin in the Gulf of Mexico -- and discovered a new kind
of sediment bed form in the northwest gulf. More
...
Measuring
the depths
The invention of two instruments -- the echo sounder
and the side-scan sonar -- have allowed oceanographers to "see"
and explore the ocean's floor. More ...
Cruise News
The Year of the Ocean
Coast Lines
Lavaca Bay's shallower sediments targeted for mercury pollution
cleanup
OGC
Oceanographers at Work
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Copyright 1998-1999, Department
of Oceanography, Texas A&M University.
Updated November 24, 1998. (abdw)
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