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| Mulder, Thierry; Cirac, Pierre; Gaudin, Mathieu; Bourillet, Jean-francois; Trainer, J.; Normand, Alain; Weber, O.; Griboulard, R.; Jouanneau, Jean-marie; Anschutz, Pierre; Jorissen, Frans. |
| Submarine canyons are narrow but deep submarine valleys that extend for hundreds of meters. They represent the most impressive structures that shape the present morphology of passive continental margins. They can occur off the mouth of rivers: the Tagus, Zaire, Amazon, and Orinoco in the Atlantic; the Indus in the Indian Ocean; and the Var, Rhone, and Ebro in the Mediterranean. Some are at times disconnected from any stream mouth such as the Nazare canyon, off Portugal, despite the fact that it is close to the coast. Some were connected to a river mouth during lowstands of sea level, such as the Wilmington canyon in the northwest Atlantic, or the Blackmud canyon in the northeast Atlantic. |
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| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00071/18201/15769.pdf |
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| Mascle, J.; Huguen, C.; Benkhelil, J.; Chamot-rooke, N.; Chaumillon, E.; Foucher, Jean-paul; Griboulard, R.; Kopf, A.; Lamarche, G.; Volkonskaia, A.; Woodside, J.; Zitter, T.. |
| Aspects of the initial stages of a collision between European and African plates may have been documented in a geophysical survey of the central Mediterranean Ridge (MR) conducted last year. The idea of an incipient collision was first suggested by Finetti [1976],and details of the seafloor and tectonic deformation along the MR, revealed for the first time in the survey, seem to point in that direction. A unique opportunity may therefore exist for studying the beginnings of such a collision—between the passive margin of a major plate (Africa) acting as a continental indenter against the active margin of another plate (Europe). More wide angle data, deep penetrating multichannel seismic data, and drilling data are crucial to better assess the nature and the... |
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| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00451/56252/57823.pdf |
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