The Le Danois Contourite Depositional System: Interactions between the Mediterranean Outflow Water and the upper Cantabrian slope (North Iberian margin)

Marine Geology

Volumn 274, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Van Rooij, D ^a   Iglesias, J ^b   Hernandez Molina F J ^c   Ercilla, G ^b   Gomez Ballesteros, M ^d   Casas, D ^b   Llave, E ^e   De Hauwere, A ^a   Garcia Gil, S ^c   Acosta, J ^d   Henriet, J P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contourite depositional system; Le Danois Bank; Mediterranean Outflow Water; North Iberian margin; Sediment drift; Seismic stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CDS; CYCLICITY; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; DOWNSLOPE; MORPHOLOGICAL CONTROL; NEO GENES; OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESS; OUTFLOW WATERS; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PAST AND PRESENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENT DRIFT; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SLIDE SCAR; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; VERTICAL STACKING;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DEPOSITS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BATHYMETRY; BOTTOM CURRENT; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CONTOURITE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DRIFT (GLACIAL DEPOSIT); EROSIVITY; NEOGENE; OUTFLOW; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY; IBERIAN MARGIN; LE DANOIS BANK;

EID: 77954887906     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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