[HTML][HTML] Contourites and associated sediments controlled by deep-water circulation processes: State-of-the-art and future considerations

M Rebesco, FJ Hernández-Molina, D Van Rooij… - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
The contourite paradigm was conceived a few decades ago, yet there remains a need to
establish a sound connection between contourite deposits, basin evolution and …

Holocene earthquake record offshore Portugal (SW Iberia): testing turbidite paleoseismology in a slow-convergence margin

E Gracia, A Vizcaino, C Escutia, A Asioli… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
The SW margin of the Iberian Peninsula hosts the present-day boundary between the
Eurasian and African Plates. Convergence (4–5mm/yr) is accommodated through a wide …

Characteristics of migrating submarine canyons from the middle Miocene to present: implications for paleoceanographic circulation, northern South China Sea

M Zhu, S Graham, X Pang, T McHargue - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2010 - Elsevier
Previously undocumented, migrating submarine canyons have developed in the Pearl River
Mouth Basin along the northern continental margin of the South China Sea from the middle …

The contourite depositional system of the Gulf of Cadiz: a sedimentary model related to the bottom current activity of the Mediterranean outflow water and its interaction …

FJ Hernández-Molina, E Llave, DAV Stow… - Deep Sea Research …, 2006 - Elsevier
The present paper is mostly a synthesis of work conducted on the continental margin of the
Gulf of Cádiz using a broad database collected by several cruises and projects supported by …

Structure and evolution of the “Olistostrome” complex of the Gibraltar Arc in the Gulf of Cádiz (eastern Central Atlantic): evidence from two long seismic cross-sections

T Medialdea, R Vegas, L Somoza, JT Vázquez… - Marine Geology, 2004 - Elsevier
Reflection profiles characterize the structure and the upper Mesozoic to Cenozoic deposits
of the Gulf of Cádiz region. Two long ENE–WSW multichannel seismic lines (ca. 400–500 …

Morphosedimentary and hydrographic features of the northern Argentine margin: the interplay between erosive, depositional and gravitational processes and its …

B Preu, FJ Hernández-Molina, R Violante… - Deep Sea Research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Bottom currents and their margin-sha** character became a central aspect in the research
field of sediment dynamics and paleoceanography during the last decades due to their …

Contourites and bottom current reworked sands: Bed facies model and implications

S De Castro, FJ Hernández-Molina… - Marine Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The differentiation of pure turbidites and contourites from mixed deposits—as the bottom
current reworked sands (BCRS)—in sedimentary cores and outcrops from the modern or …

Contourite characterization and its discrimination from other deep‐water deposits in the Gulf of Cadiz contourite depositional system

S De Castro, FJ Hernández‐Molina… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite numerous efforts to properly differentiate between contourites and other deep‐water
deposits in cores and outcrops, reliable diagnostic criteria are still lacking. The co …

Deciphering bottom current velocity and paleoclimate signals from contourite deposits in the G ulf of C ádiz during the last 140 kyr: An inorganic geochemical …

A Bahr, FJ Jiménez‐Espejo, N Kolasinac… - Geochemistry …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Contourites in the Gulf of Cádiz (GC) preserve a unique archive of Mediterranean Outflow
Water (MOW) variability over the past 5.3 Ma. In our study, we investigate the potential of …

Tectonics and mud volcano development in the Gulf of Cádiz

T Medialdea, L Somoza, LM Pinheiro… - marine Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
Many structures associated with fluid escape, including mud volcanoes, mud-carbonate
mounds, pockmarks and slides, have been identified and characterized in the Gulf of Cádiz …