Droz, L. et al. (1999): L'Eventail profond de la marge celtique; stratigraphie et evolution sedimentaire The Celtic deep-sea fan; stratigraphic and sedimentary evolution

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Identifier:
1999-055078
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Creator:
Droz, L.
Institut Universitaire Europeen de la Mer, Plouzane, France
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Auffret, G. A.
IFREMER, Plouzane, France
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Savoye, B.
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Bourillet, Jean-Francois
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Identification:
L'Eventail profond de la marge celtique; stratigraphie et evolution sedimentaire The Celtic deep-sea fan; stratigraphic and sedimentary evolution
1999
Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes
Gauthier-Villars, Montrouge, France
328
3
173-180
Seismic data collected on the Celtic Fan during Sedifan cruises (European Program Enam II), stratigraphically correlated to DSDP site 400 (leg 48) show that fan deposition was initiated during the Early Miocene. It progressively extended towards the middle of the Bay of Biscay during the Plio-Quaternary. The fan includes 3 main seismic units with several channel/levee bodies disturbed by mass-movement deposits. Depocenters shifted several times, and the present-day morphology ultimately results from a last shift of detritic inputs to the Whittard System.
French
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Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:48.0000
West:-8.0000East: -1.1000
South:43.2000

Quaternary geology; Atlantic Ocean; Bay of Biscay; Celtic Fan; Cenozoic; channels; Deep Sea Drilling Project; drilling; glacis; marine sediments; Neogene; North Atlantic; Quaternary; sediments; seismic stratigraphy; slopes; submarine fans; Tertiary; upper Tertiary;

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