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| Urgeles, Roger; Cattaneo, Antonio; Puig, Pere; Liquete, Camino; De Mol, Ben; Amblas, David; Sultan, Nabil; Trincardi, Fabio. |
| Most Mediterranean prodeltas show undulated sediment features on the foresets of their Holocene wedges. These features have been described all along the Mediterranean for the last 30 years and interpreted as either soft sediment deformation and incipient landsliding, and more recently, as sediment transport structures. We perform a review and detailed analysis of these undulated sediment features using ultrahigh-resolution seismic and bathymetric data as well as geotechnical information and hydrodynamic time series and hydrographic transects. In this study we show that the characteristics of the sediment undulations (configuration of the reflections down section and between adjacent undulations and overall morphologic characteristics) are incompatible with... |
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Palavras-chave: Undulated sediments; Prodeltas; Slope failure; Sediment waves; Hyperpycnal flows; Internal waves. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00043/15388/12841.pdf |
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| Sultan, Nabil; Gaudin, Mathieu; Berne, Serge; Canals, Miquel; Urgeles, Roger; Lafuerza, Sara. |
| To improve understanding of evolution of submarine canyons, a three-dimensional slope-stability model is applied to Bourcart Canyon in the western Gulf of Lions in the Mediterranean Sea. The model builds on previous work by Chen and others, and it uses the upper bound theorem of plasticity to calculate the factor of safety of a kinematically admissible failing mass. Examples of three-dimensional failure surfaces documented in the literature were used to test the model formulation. Model application to Bourcart Canyon employed the results of a detailed stratigraphic analyses based on data acquired by swath bathymetry, sub-bottom profiling, high-resolution seismic reflection surveys, and piston coring. The sediment layers were also characterized using... |
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Palavras-chave: Cascadia accretionary complex; Upper bound theorem; Stability analysis; Continental slope; Limit equilibrium; Western gulf; Offshore; Margin; Initiation; Sediment. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-2410.pdf |
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| Badhani, Shray; Cattaneo, Antonio; Collico, Stefano; Urgeles, Roger; Dennielou, Bernard; Leroux, Estelle; Colin, Florent; Garziglia, Sebastien; Rabineau, Marina; Droz, Laurence. |
| The Gulf of Lions presents recurring mass-transport deposits (MTDs) within the Plio-Quaternary sediments suggesting a long history of mass movements. The two large, surficial MTDs are located on the eastern and western levee of the Rhone canyon over an area exceeding 6000 km2 and volumes exceeding 100 km3. Both MTDs were emplaced 21 ka ago (peak of the Last Glacial Maximum), suggesting a common trigger. Here, we present a multidisciplinary high-resolution geophysical, sedimentological and in-situ geotechnical study of the source and deposit areas of both MTDs to characterise distinct expressions of sediment deformation as well as their spatial and chronological distributions. We show the internal structure of mass movements and resulting MTDs with... |
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| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00611/72289/71122.pdf |
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