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| Mazuel, Aude; Sisavath, Emmanuelle; Babonneau, Nathalie; Jorry, Stephan; Bachelery, Patrick; Delacourt, Christophe. |
| Recent marine geophysical surveys reveal the existence of well-developed volcaniclastic deep-sea fans around La Réunion Island, Indian Ocean. The Mafate turbidite complex, located in the northwestern part of the island, is a large sedimentary system formed by two coalescent-like volcaniclastic deep-sea fans: the Mafate fan and the Saint-Denis fan. They are both connected to terrestrial rivers supplying sediment produced by erosion on the island, particularly during austral summer cyclonic floods. Through the integration of marine geophysical data (including bathymetry, backscatter multibeam sounder images, TOBI side-scan sonar images and seismic reflection profiles) and piston cores, a submarine morpho-sedimentary map of the surface architecture of the... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep-sea fan; Turbidite; Volcaniclastic; Land-to-sea transfer; La Reunion Island; Late Quaternary. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00312/42273/41597.pdf |
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| Sisavath, Emmanuelle; Babonneau, Nathalie; Saint-ange, Francky; Bachelery, Patrick; Jorry, Stephan; Deplus, Christine; De Voogd, Beatrice; Savoye, Bruno. |
| Recent oceanographic surveys revealed the existence of five volcaniclastic deep-sea fans off La Reunion Island. The Cilaos fan is a large volcaniclastic submarine fan, connected to rivers that episodically experience torrential floods through a narrow and steep shelf-slope system. New piston cores presented in this study together with echosounder profiles give new insight into the evolution, of this extensive and sand-rich turbidite system. The Cilaos fan extends over 15,000 km(2) on an abyssal plain and is compartmentalized by topographic highs. Located southwest of the island, the sedimentary system consists of a canyon area and a deep sea fan divided into a proximal and a distal fan. The proximal fan is characterized by its wide extent and... |
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Palavras-chave: Turbidite; Deep-sea fan; Volcaniclastic; La Reunion Island. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00056/16704/14203.pdf |
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| Raimonet, Melanie; Ragueneau, Olivier; Jacques, Vincent; Corvaisier, Rudolph; Moriceau, Brivaela; Khripounoff, Alexis; Pozzato, Lara; Rabouille, Christophe. |
| Mechanisms controlling the transfer and retention of silicon (Si) along continental margins are poorly understood, but play a major role in the functioning of coastal ecosystems and the oceanic biological pump of carbon. Deep-sea fans are well recognized as carbon sink spots, but we lack knowledge about the importance of the fans in the global Si cycle. Here, we provide a first estimate of the role played by the Congo deep-sea fan, one of the biggest in the world, in the Si cycle. Sediment cores sampled in the deep-sea fan were analyzed to build a Si mass balance. An exceptionally high accumulation rate of amorphous silica aSiO(2) (2.29 +/- 0.58 mol Si m(-2) y(-1)) was found, due to a high sedimentation rate and the presence of aluminum in the sediments.... |
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Palavras-chave: Continental margin; Land-sea export; Silica cycle; Congo canyon; Deep-sea fan. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00251/36242/35797.pdf |
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