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, L., Hernández-Molina, F., Esteban, F., Tassone, A., Piola, A., Maldonado, A., Preu, B., Violante, R., Lodolo, E.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pacific; Scotia Sea; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Yaghan Basin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; South Atlantic Ocean; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/17114; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-015-0406-6

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...