High frequency environmental changes and deposition processes in a 2 kyr-long sedimentological record from the Cap-Breton canyon (Bay of Biscay)

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: MARY, Yannick, EYNAUD, Frederique, ZARAGOSI, Sebastien, MALAIZE, Bruno, CREMER, Michel, SCHMIDT, Sabine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Adour River; Bay of Biscay; Capbreton canyon; last 2000 years; late Holocene; Planktonic foraminifera; Sciences de l'environnement; River Bay; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/200141; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12278/200141; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614558647

The core MD03-2693 (43°39.258′N; 01°39.805′W; 431 m water depth) was collected on an abandoned meander of the Capbreton Canyon (SE Bay of Biscay), filled over the last millennia by very high sedimentation rates (mean sedimentation rate of 1.2 cm/yr) linked to its specific environmental location and...