Reconstruction of sediment transfers from the Irish Sea margin and the Fleuve Manche (English Channel) palaeoriver over the last climatic cycles

• Main Author: Toucanne, Samuel
• Other Authors: Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB), Géosciences Marines (GM), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I, Michel Cremer, Sébastien Zaragosi, Jean-François Bourillet
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2008
• Subjects: Bay of Biscay; sediment transfer; turbidite systems; climate; ice sheets; ‘Fleuve Manche' palaeoriver; glacial Irish Sea system; European fluvial system; Land-sea correlations; Golfe de Gascogne; transferts sédimentaires; systèmes turbiditiques; Pléistocène; climat; glaciations; calottes glaciaires; Fleuve Manche; système glaciaire de Mer d'Irlande; réseau de drainage européen; corrélations terre-mer; [SDU.STU.MI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Mineralogy; Dover; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00389403; https://theses.hal.science/tel-00389403/document; https://theses.hal.science/tel-00389403/file/Toucanne2008.pdf

The Pleistocene has been period of fluctuating climate accompanied by prominent sea-level lowstands during the glacial intervals, when massive continental ice sheets extended from mountainous to lowland European areas. The retreat of the shoreline on the extensive present-day shallow continental she...