Late Pleistocene Boulder Slumps Eroded from a Basalt Shoreline at El Confital Beach on Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)

• Published in: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
• Main Authors: Inés Galindo, Markes E. Johnson, Esther Martín-González, Carmen Romero, Juana Vegas, Carlos S. Melo, Sérgio P. Ávila, Nieves Sánchez
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: coastal storm deposits; storm surge; hydrodynamic equations; upper pleistocene; marine isotope substage 5e; North Atlantic Ocean; Las Palmas; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9020138

This study examines the role of North Atlantic storms degrading a Late Pleistocene rocky shoreline formed by basaltic rocks overlying hyaloclastite rocks on a small volcanic peninsula connected to Gran Canaria in the central region of the Canary Archipelago. A conglomerate dominated by large, ellips...