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Contourite drift molded by deep Mediterranean outflow

Geology, 1984
Since its inception in early Pliocene time, the deep Mediterranean outflow has eroded and sculptured the southern Iberian margin. The 50-km-long, 300-m-thick Faro Drift, constructed by this powerful bottom current, has been the subject of detailed study.
Jean-Claude Faugèers, Eliane Gonthier, Dorrik A. V. Stow   +2 more
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Contour Currents and Contourite Drifts

2011
Abstract This chapter provides a current state-of-the-art on the contourite systems with a major focus on the modern systems (drifts), the processes of deposition and the diagnostic sedimentological and seismic features. A short overview of the ancient contourite problem is also provided. Firstly, the history of contourites is briefly reminded since
Jean-Claude Faugères, Thierry Mulder
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Quaternary contourite drifts of the Western Spitsbergen margin

Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 2013
The study of contourite drifts is an increasingly used tool for understanding the climate history of the oceans. In this paper we analyse two contourite drifts along the continental margin west of Spitsbergen, just south of the Fram Strait where significant water mass exchanges impact the Arctic climate.
Michele Rebesco, Anna Wåhlin, Jan Sverre Laberg, Ursula Schauer, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller, Renata Giulia Lucchi, Riko Noormets, Daniela Accettella, Yulia Zarayskaya, Paolo Diviacco   +9 more
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Contourite Drifts and Associated Bedforms

2017
Contourites, also known as alongslope deposits, are sediments that have been deposited or significantly affected by the persistent action of contour (bottom) currents. Contourite drifts are the large-scale morphological expression of contourite deposition, up to 106 km2 in area and >1 km in thickness.
Ibimina Esentia, Dorrik Stow, Zeinab Smillie   +2 more
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Contourite facies of the Faro Drift, Gulf of Cadiz

Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 1984
Summary The Faro Drift is an elongate sediment body (50 km long, 300 m thick) that parallels the northern margin of the Gulf of Cadiz south of Portugal. On the basis of location, morphology and seismic character of the drift together with bottom photographs, sediment distribution and the known regional oceanography, we can be certain that the
E. G. Gonthier, J.-C. Faugères, D. A. V. Stow   +2 more
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Ordovician carbonate contourite drifts in Hunan and Gansu Provinces, China

Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 2002
abstract The Early Ordovician continental margin at the southern edge of the Yangtze Platform, China, is represented by a succession of deep-water carbonate sediments near Jiuxi. A distinctive elongate mound-like form, some 120 km long, 25 km wide and 350-450 m thick, has been identified between shallow-water platform carbonates ...
Luo, S., Gao, Z., He, Y., Stow, D.A.V.
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The Lofoten Contourite Drift: High-Resolution Seismic Stratigraphy

2003
A contourite drift, the Lofoten Drift, has been identified from ca. 1,000 m water depth on the continental slope off northern Norway (Laberg et al. 1999) (Fig. 1). The Norwegian Current transporting Atlantic water towards the NE dominates present day surface circulation off northern Norway The strongest measured currents are in excess of 1.1 m/s west ...
J. S. Laberg, T. O. Vorren
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Facies distribution and textural variation in Faro Drift contourites: Velocity fluctuation and drift growth

Marine Geology, 1986
Abstract Detailed study of seismic profiles, piston cores and bottom photographs from the Faro Drift on the southern margin of Portugal has led to a better understanding of drift development and its relationship to bottom current circulation. Data on the contourite facies characteristics and the surface microphysiography have been published elsewhere;
Dorrik A.V. Stow, Jean-Claude Faugères, Eliane Gonthier   +2 more
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Ocean-current controlled sedimentation: the Lofoten Contourite Drift, Norwegian Sea

Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 2016
Sediment deposition from ocean-bottom or contour currents leads to the development of contourite drifts. On the continental slope offshore of Norway, contourite drifts have developed from sediment deposition from the alongslope-flowing Norwegian Current which brings warm and saline water masses into the Norwegian Sea. The present pattern of circulation
J. S. Laberg, N. J. Baeten, M. Forwick, D. H. Wiberg   +3 more
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Bottom currents, contourites and deep-sea sediment drifts: current state-of-the-art

Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 2002
Abstract This paper provides both an introduction to and summary for the Atlas of Contourite Systems that has been compiled as part of the International Geological Correlation Project - IGCP 432. Following the seminal works of George Wust on the physical oceanography of bottom currents, and Charley Hollister on contourite sediments, a series ...
Stow, D.A.V., Faugeres, J-C., Howe, J.A., Pudsey, C.J., Viana, A.R.   +4 more
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