The first decade of Gloria

In 10 years of operation, GLORIA has been used on 26 cruises and has inonified more than 1% of the ocean floor. The paper reviews the scientific achievements of this new tool and assesses the contributions which it has made to understanding the geological features and the processes creating them. A complete bibliography of GLORIA papers is included in the references, and the best examples of sonographs obtained over different terrain are illustrated.

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[23]  R. Searle.  The active part of Charlie‐Gibbs Fracture Zone: A study using sonar and other geophysical techniques , 1981 .

[24]  R. Searle,et al.  Site Survey for Site 410, an Example of the Use of Long-Range Side-Scan Sonar (Gloria) , 1979 .

[25]  M. L. Somers,et al.  An experimental survey of a herring fishery by long-range sonar , 1973 .

[26]  N. Kenyon,et al.  Iceberg plough marks in the northeast Atlantic , 1973 .

[27]  N. Kenyon,et al.  Evolving miogeanticlines of the East Mediterranean (Hellenic, Calabrian and Cyprus Outer Ridges) , 1977, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

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[29]  N. Kenyon,et al.  10-km wide views of Mediterranean deep sea floor , 1970 .

[30]  N. Kenyon,et al.  Plan views of active faults and other features on the lower Nile cone , 1975 .

[31]  N. Kenyon,et al.  Calabrian Ridge, a newly discovered branch of the Mediterranean Ridge , 1974, Nature.

[32]  B. Funnell,et al.  Palmer Ridge: a Section through the Upper Part of the Ocean Crust? , 1967, Nature.

[33]  N. Kenyon,et al.  Features of submarine volcanoes shown on long range sonographs , 1974, Journal of the Geological Society.

[34]  J. Southard,et al.  Flow Phenomena in the Benthic Boundary Layer and Bed Forms beneath Deep-Current Systems , 1976 .