Giant mounded drifts in the Argentine Continental Margin: Origins, and global implications for the history of thermohaline circulation

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1508-1530

  Hernandez Molina F J ^a   Paterlini, M ^b   Somoza, L ^c   Violante, R ^b   Arecco, M A ^d   de Isasi, M ^d   Rebesco, M ^e   Uenzelmann Neben, G ^f   Neben, S ^g   Marshall, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Hidrografia Naval   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^d Argentine National Commission of the Outer Limit of the Continental Shelf (COPLA)   (Argentina)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argentine Margin; Contourite drift; Hydrocarbon potential; Palaeoceanography; Seamounts; Seismic stratigraphy; Slope

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTICA; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP WATER; DEEP-MARINE; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; DRAKE PASSAGE; EASTERN SIDE; ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EXTERNAL SHAPE; FREE GAS; HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL; INTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC EVIDENCE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WESTERN SIDE;

BATHYMETRY; ENERGY RESOURCES; GAS HYDRATES; HYDROCARBONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; WATER RESOURCES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAMOUNT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ANTARCTICA; ARGENTINE BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77954659936     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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