Flow dynamics around downwelling submarine canyons [PDF]
Ocean Science, 2014 Flow dynamics around a downwelling submarine canyon were analysed with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model. Blanes Canyon (northwestern Mediterranean) was used for topographic and initial forcing conditions ...
J. M. Spurgin, S. E. Allen
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Towards a new and integrated approach to submarine canyon research. Introduction [PDF]
, 2014 Submarine canyons, steep-walled valleys that cut across virtually every continental margin around the world (Harris and Whiteway, 2011), are considered major sediment transport pathways between continental shelves and the deep sea (e.g., Shepard, 1963 ...
Davies, Jaime S., Huvenne, Veerle A.I.
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How can we identify and communicate the ecological value of deep-sea ecosystem services? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Submarine canyons are considered biodiversity hotspots which have been identified for their important roles in connecting the deep sea with shallower waters.
Niels Jobstvogt +3 more
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Mass wasting at the base of the South central Chilean continental margin: the Reloca Slide [PDF]
, 2009 Offshore south central Chile (35° S–42° S), the morphology of the lowermost continental slope and trench floor witnesses a voluminous submarine mass-wasting event.
Behrmann, Jan Hinrich +4 more
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The Whittard Canyon – A case study of submarine canyon processes [PDF]
Progress in Oceanography, 2016 Submarine canyons are large geomorphological features that incise continental shelves and slopes around the world. They are often suggested to be biodiversity and biomass hotspots, although there is no consensus about this in the literature. Nevertheless, many canyons do host diverse faunal communities but owing to our lack of understanding of the ...
Amaro, T. +21 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 This paper summarises the occurrence of Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) over 12 years (2009 to 2021) in the northwestern Mediterranean. The study was conducted off the central coast of Catalonia (NE Spain) in an area covering 8,026 km2 and featuring a ...
Carla A. Chicote +2 more
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Swath Mapping on the Continental Shelf and Slope: The Eel River Basin, Northern California [PDF]
, 1996 First Paragraph The STRATAFORM program sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (Nittrouer and Kravitz, 1996, this issue) seeks to understand how sedimentary processes lead to the formation of the stratigraphic sequences on continental margins.
Goff, John A. +3 more
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Geo-hazards of the San Vito peninsula offshore (southwestern Tyrrhenian Sea)
Journal of Maps, 2021 In this paper we present geomorphological hazard mapping of the San Vito Peninsula offshore (Sicilian margin of Tyrrhenian Sea), characterised by a very narrow continental shelf and a very dipping, tectonically active continental slope, no far from a ...
A. Sulli +4 more
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Sea Beam Survey of an Active Strike-Slip Fault: The San Clemente Fault in the California Continental Borderland [PDF]
, 1989 The San Clemente fault, located in the California Continental Borderland, is an active, northwest trending, right-lateral, wrench fault. Sea Beam data are used to map the major tectonic landforms associated with active submarine faulting in detail ...
de Moustier, Christian +4 more
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Typhoon-induced megarips as triggers of turbidity currents offshore tropical river deltas
Communications Earth & Environment, 2020 Intense rip currents caused by tropical cyclones can drive sediment-laden turbidity flows down submarine canyons, according to numerical simulations. Shoreline shape, bathymetry and incoming wave direction are key factors controlling this phenomenon.
Gaetano Porcile +3 more
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