Unveiling the contourite depositional system in the Vema Fracture Zone (Central Atlantic) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 A combination of a high sediment input and intense bottom currents often leads to the formation of contourites (sediments deposited or significantly reworked by bottom currents). Both of these components are present in the Vema Fracture Zone valley which
Dmitrii G. Borisov +6 more
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Distinguishing between Deep-Water Sediment Facies: Turbidites, Contourites and Hemipelagites
Geosciences, 2020 The distinction between turbidites, contourites and hemipelagites in modern and ancient deep-water systems has long been a matter of controversy. This is partly because the processes themselves show a degree of overlap as part of a continuum, so that the
Dorrik Stow, Zeinab Smillie
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First Evidence of Contourite Drifts in the North-Western Sicilian Active Continental Margin (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea) [PDF]
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 We present the results of an integrated geomorphological and seismo-stratigraphic study based on high resolution marine data acquired in the north-western Sicilian continental margin. We document for the first time five contourite drifts (marked as EM1a,
Daniele Spatola +3 more
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Geologia Croatica, 2010 The Upper Cretaceous deep marine deposits in NE parts of Žumberakcontain sediments deposited by bottom currents - muddy, sandy andsandy-gravelly contourites. The complete (negative-positive) sequencesand incomplete (negative-positive) sequences have been
Ervin Mrinjek
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MERCURY INTRUSION POROSIMETRY TO EVALUATE THE INCIDENCE OF BIOTURBATION ON POROSITY OF CONTOURITES
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2021 The effect of bioturbation on rocks’ flow-media properties (e.g., porosity and permeability) and its impact on reservoir quality has been previously documented.
FRANCISCO J. RODRÍGUEZ-TOVAR +2 more
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Contourites: Physical oceanography, process sedimentology, and petroleum geology
Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2017 The purpose of this critical review is to address fundamental principles associated with contourites and other bottom-current deposits. The four basic types of deep-marine bottom currents are: (1) thermohaline-induced geostrophic contour currents, (2 ...
G SHANMUGAM
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The Cadiz Contourite Channel: Sandy contourites, bedforms and dynamic current interaction [PDF]
Marine Geology, 2013 The Cadiz Contourite Channel is the largest and most prominent contourite channel in the middle slope of the Gulf of Cadiz, and is known to channelise the southern branch of the Lower Core of Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) as it flows westwards from the Gibraltar Gateway.
Bruno Mejías, Miguel +7 more
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Contourite Anticlines as Exploration Objectives: ABSTRACT
AAPG Bulletin, 1979 Regional seismic profiles off the east coast of the United States gathered by the University of Texas Marine Science Institute and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have crossed three types of contourite anticlines. They are symmetric, asymmetric, and half-anticlinal forms and have up to 3,000 ft (1,000 m) of relief.
Donald P. McGookey
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Lateral variability of ichnological content in muddy contourites: Weak bottom currents affecting organisms' behavior. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Although bioturbation is commonly recognized in contourites, only a few studies have analyzed the ichnological content of these deposits in detail. These studies have mainly focused on meso-scale bigradational sequence (a coarsening upward followed by a ...
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