Article Dans Une Revue Geo-Marine Letters Année : 2006

The French Atlantic margin and deep-sea submarine systems

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The sedimentary infill of the Bay of Biscay off Ireland, UK, France and Spain took place in four phases. The last one (35 Ma to present) is characterised by gravitational, pelagic, contouritic and glacigenic processes leading to the setup of three deep sea systems. To the North, the Celtic and Armorican fans are fed by a "canyon-dominated" margin and its connection with the "Manche" palaeoriver, which drained a large area of western Europe. To the South, the Cap-Ferret fan results from the evolution of a "tectonic-dominated" margin and the erosion of the Pyrenee mountains.

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hal-04783009 , version 1 (14-11-2024)

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Jean-Francois Bourillet, Sebastien Zaragosi, Thierry Mulder. The French Atlantic margin and deep-sea submarine systems. Geo-Marine Letters, 2006, 26 (6), pp.311-315. ⟨10.1007/s00367-006-0042-2⟩. ⟨hal-04783009⟩
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