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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The SITAR Project: background, goals, project structure
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Front Matter
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Methods
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Front Matter
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About this book
Buried waste on the seabed is a major source of pollution. But, very often, waste sites are not known until a serious problem occurs, or are not adequately mapped. Recent examples around Europe include WWI and WWII ammunition dump sites (e.g. Beufort Dyke in the UK), dumped nuclear submarines in the Arctic Seas, clandestine or hidden toxic-waste in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. Even if properly documented, waste sites evolve with time (dumped material can move with currents and tides, especially on a scale of decades; toxic-material barrels can corrode and leak). This book shows the results of a concerted EU-funded effort to tackle this problem and find innovative ways to identify and map toxic waste sites on the seabed, whether they have been covered with sediments or not. These results are applicable to any region on the seabed in the entire world.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Philippe Blondel
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Interuniversity Centre of Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Andrea Caiti
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Buried Waste in the Seabed – Acoustic Imaging and Bio-toxicity
Book Subtitle: Results from the European SITAR Project
Authors: Philippe Blondel, Andrea Caiti
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28121-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-28120-7Published: 13 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06635-1Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-28121-4Published: 29 December 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 208
Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishing, UK
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Biogeosciences, Hydrogeology, Oceanography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry