Erosional and depositional contourite features at the transition between the western Scotia Sea and southern South Atlantic Ocean: links with regional water-mass circulation since the Middle Miocene

• Published in: Geo-Marine Letters
• Main Authors: Pérez, Lara F., Hernández Molina, F. Javier, Esteban, Federico Damián, Tassone, Alejandro Alberto, Piola, Alberto Ricardo, Maldonado, Andrés, Preu, Benedict, Violante, Roberto Antonio, Lodolo, Emanuele
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: CONTOURITE; WATER-MASS CIRCULATION; WESTERN SCOTIA SEA; SOUTHERN SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Scotia Sea; Greenland; Pacific; Weddell; Molina; Holloway; Yaghan Basin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; South Atlantic Ocean; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/41782

The aim of the present study was to characterise the morpho-sedimentary features and main stratigraphic stacking pattern off the Tierra del Fuego continental margin, the north-western sector of the Scotia Sea abyssal plain (Yaghan Basin) and the Malvinas/Falkland depression, based on single- and mul...