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| Tallobre, Cedric; Loncke, Lies; Bassetti, Maria-angela; Giresse, Pierre; Bayon, Germain; Buscail, Roselyne; De Madron, Xavier Durrieu; Bourrin, Francois; Vanhaesebroucke, Marc; Sotin, Christine. |
| The Demerara Plateau, belonging to the passive transform margin of French Guiana, was investigated during the IGUANES cruise in 2013. The objectives of the cruise were to explore the poorly-known surficial sedimentary column overlying thick mass transport deposits as well as to understand the factors controlling recent sedimentation. The presence of numerous bedforms at the seafloor was observed thanks to newly acquired IGUANES bathymetric, high resolution seismic and chirp data, while sediment cores allowed the characterization of the deposits covering the mass transport deposits. Modern oceanographic conditions were determined in situ, using mooring monitoring over a 10-month period. Our data indicate the presence of a Contourite Depositional System... |
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Palavras-chave: Marginal plateau; Contourite; Comet tail; Demerara Plateau. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00308/41957/41220.pdf |
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| Tallobre, Cédric; Giresse, Pierre; Bassetti, Maria-angela; Loncke, Lies; Bayon, Germain; Buscail, Roselyne; Tudryn, Alina; Zaragosi, Sébastien. |
| The Demerara Plateau is a marginal plateau which forms a bathymetric relief on the sea floor. Here, contourite deposits have been studied in detail, following the recent discovery of contourite sequences likely related to the bottom currents and linked both to contour current and peculiar sea-floor morphology. A chronostratigraphic framework, based on δ18O relative variations and palaeomagnetic events in sediment cores allows correlating sediment processes to current intensity changes and major climate phases (glacial or interglacial). The studied sediments are enriched in glauconitic grains. In addition, the glauconite mineralogical maturity can easily correlate to low sedimentation rate and slightly energetic bottom currents on the seafloor. Based on... |
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Palavras-chave: Marginal plateau; Contourite; Glauconite; Demerara plateau. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00485/59665/62724.pdf |
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| Fanget, Anne-sophie; Loncke, Lies; Pattier, France; Marsset, Tania; Roest, Walter; Tallobre, Cédric; Durrieu De Madron, Xavier; Hernandez Molina, F. Javier. |
| The Demerara Plateau, off the French Guiana and Surinam margin, corresponds to a prominent sub-horizontal marginal plateau. The interpretation of a large set of seismic data acquired along the Demerara Plateau and integration with previous seismic stratigraphy and drill studies enables a better understanding of the sedimentary evolution of the outer Demerara marginal plateau. Since the end of the transform activity (late Albian), three sedimentary evolutionary stages have been identified. 1) The Pre-contourite Stage (late Albian to early Miocene) is strongly controlled by the structure of the margin that influences the distribution pattern of post-transform deposits through differential thermal subsidence between transform and divergent segments. 2) The... |
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Palavras-chave: Marginal plateau; Demerara Plateau; Contourite; Bottom currents; Mass transport deposits; Atlantic Ocean. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00599/71125/69439.pdf |
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| Mercier De Lepinay, Marion; Loncke, Lies; Basile, Christophe; Roest, Walter; Patriat, Martin; Maillard, Agnes; De Clarens, Philippe. |
| We present a global inventory of transform continental margins, based on both a worldwide comparison of continent-ocean boundary identifications with oceanic fracture zones traces, and a compilation of published regional studies. This inventory increases the number of identified transform margins from 29 to 78. These margins represent 16% of continental margins in cumulative length and 31% of non-convergent margins. We include morphological data, published upper crustal sections, continent to ocean transition locations and published Moho shape data in the new database. This review confirms that continent to ocean transitions are sharper at transform margins than at divergent margins. It also emphasizes the structural diversity of transform margins.... |
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Palavras-chave: Transform margin; Continental margin physiography; Marginal ridge; Marginal plateau. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00343/45372/44868.pdf |
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