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New foundings of contourite deposits in an active continental margin (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea)

2014

Contourites Bottom Currents Loop Current
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First Evidence of Contourite Drifts in the North-Western Sicilian Active Continental Margin (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea)

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, EM2b, EM2, EM3a, and EM3b), located in the continental slope at depths between ca. 400 and 1500 m. EM1a,b have been interpreted as elongated mounded drifts. EM1a,b are ca. 3 km long, 1.3 km wide, and have a maximum thickness of 36 m in their center that thins northwards, while EM1b is smaller with a thickness up to 24 m. They are internally characterized by mounded seismic packages dominated by continuous and parallel reflectors. EM2 is loc…

seismic reflection dataSettore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E SedimentologicaSettore GEO/03 - Geologia StrutturaleSettore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica E GeomorfologiaNaval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineeringVM1-989Ocean EngineeringGC1-1581OceanographyPaleontologyMediterranean seaContinental marginAggradationMediterranean Seacontinental slopemoatHoloceneWater Science and TechnologyCivil and Structural Engineeringgeographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryContinental shelfcontouritesContouriteSeafloor spreadinglanguage.human_languagelanguagebottom currentsSiciliancontourites; bottom currents; continental slope; moat; seismic reflection data; Mediterranean SeaGeology
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