Influence des courants profonds sur les faciès sédimentaires du Vema Channel (Atlantique sud) à la fin du Cénozoïque

• Main Authors: Melguen, Marthe, Debrabant, Pierre, Chamley, Hervé, Maillot, Henry, Hoffert, Michel, Courtois, Chantal
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Société Géologique de France 1978
• Subjects: Histoire Ifremer; Antarctic; Brunes; Antarc*; Antarctique*; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1978/publication-5228.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/5228/

The sediments of six cores from the Rio Grande Rise side of the Vema Channel reflect major phases in the sedimentary history of this area since Ihe lower Miocene. Cores taken from below the present-day lysocline (approx. 4 000 m) consist essentially of calcareous oozes. The variable degree of preser...