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

• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Charge density waves; Climate change; Hydraulics; Oceanography; Sedimentology; Stratigraphy; Antarctic ice sheets; Antarctic intermediate waters; Continental margin; Evolutionary stage; Multi-channel seismic; Regional tectonics; Sedimentary records; Weddell sea deep waters; Flow of water; abyssal plain; contourite; depositional environment; erosion; geological record; intermediate water; Miocene; oceanic circulation; paleoceanography; seafloor; water flow; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic Ocean (South); Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Scotia Sea; Tierra del Fuego [(ISG) South America]; Antarctic; Pacific; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Yaghan Basin; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; South Atlantic Ocean; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_02760460_v35_n4_p271_Perez; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_02760460_v35_n4_p271_Perez

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...