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| Thiéblemont, Antoine; Hernández-molina, F. Javier; Miramontes, Elda; Raisson, François; Penven, Pierrick. |
| We present a combined study of the geomorphology, sedimentology, and physical oceanography of the Mozambique Channel to evaluate the role of bottom currents in shaping the Mozambican continental margin and adjacent Durban basin. Analysis of 2D multichannel seismic reflection profiles and bathymetric features revealed major contourite deposits with erosive (abraded surfaces, contourite channels, moats, furrows and scours), depositional (plastered and elongated-mounded drifts, sedimentary waves), and mixed (terraces) features, which were then used to construct a morpho-sedimentary map of the study area. Hydrographic data and hydrodynamic modelling provide new insights into the distribution of water masses, bottom current circulation and associated processes... |
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Palavras-chave: Contourites; Bottom currents; Sedimentary processes; Water mass interfaces; Continental margin; Mozambique channel. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00488/60002/63238.pdf |
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| Hanquiez, V; Mulder, T; Lecroart, P; Gonthier, E; Marches, E; Voisset, Michel. |
| In the Gulf of Cadiz, the hydrodynamic process acting on particle transport and deposition is a strong density-driven bottom current caused by the outflow of the saline deep Mediterranean water at the Strait of Gibraltar: the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW). New high resolution acoustic data including EM300 multibeam echo-sounder, deep-towed acoustic system SAR and very high resolution seismic, completed by piston cores collected during the CADISAR cruise allow to improve the understanding of the hydrodynamics of the MOW in the eastern part of the Gulf of Cadiz. Interpretation of data corrects the previous model established in this area and allows, for the first time, the accurate characterization of various bedforms and erosive structures along the MOW... |
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Palavras-chave: Instabilities; Sedimentary processes; Acoustic facies; Deep towed SAR; Contourites; Mediterranean Outflow Water MOW; Gulf of Cadiz. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-3676.pdf |
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| Van Der Schee, Marlies; Sierro, F. J.; Jimenez-espejo, F. J.; Hernandez-molina, F. J.; Flecker, R.; Flores, J. A.; Acton, G.; Gutjahr, M.; Grunert, P.; Garcia-gallardo, A.; Andersen, N.. |
| Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 339 cored multiple sites in the Gulf of Cadiz in order to study contourite deposition resulting from Mediterranean Outflow water (MOW). One Hole, U1387C, was cored to a depth of 865.85 m below seafloor (mbsf) with the goal of recovering the latest Miocene to Pliocene transition in order to evaluate the history of MOW immediately after the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. To understand this history, an accurate age model for the succession is needed, but is challenging to construct, because the Miocene-Pliocene boundary is not marked by a clear biostratigraphic event in the Atlantic and coring gaps occur within the recovered stratigraphic record. These limitations are overcome by combining a variety... |
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Palavras-chave: Miocene-Pliocene boundary; Gulf of Cadiz; IODP Expedition 339; Mediterranean outflow water; Messinian salinity crisis; Contourites. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00421/53217/54843.pdf |
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| Gauchery, Tugdual; Rovere, Marzia; Pellegrini, Claudio; Cattaneo, Antonio; Campiani, Elisabetta; Trincardi, Fabio. |
| This study presents novel findings on the Pliocene and Quaternary evolution of the Gela Basin (Strait of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea), an area recording the interaction between tectonics, climate change at a Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch timescales, and dynamic water masses exchange between the eastern and western Mediterranean Sea. The calibration of seismic profiles with exploration boreholes allowed for the refining the chronostratigraphic framework of the Gela Basin and highlighted the main phases of margin growth. Since the Pliocene, the margin has recorded the deposition of 100 m high shelf-edge clinothems, accompanied by sediment drifts on the slope and mass-transport deposits (MTDs), possibly triggered by seismic activity. Through the... |
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Palavras-chave: Stratigraphy; Middle Pleistocene Transition; Plio-Quaternary; Contourites; Clinothems; Mass-transport deposits; Continental margin evolution; Glacio-eustatic variations. |
| Ano: 2021 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00655/76739/77888.pdf |
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