title: Submarine canyon erosion: contribution of marine rock burrowers.
abstract: Rocks of the rim and upper walls of Scripps Submarine Canyon are intensely burrowed by marine invertebrates. Important excavators are bivalves, polychaetes, and sipunculoids whose activities culminate in a network of passageways and eventual disintegration of the rocks. In many localities erosion by animals is more important than erosion by physical and chemical processes.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Warme
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Scanland
authors.forename: N F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Marshall