Oceanographic processes and products around the Iberian margina new multidisciplinary approach
- Hernández Molina, Francisco Javier
- Wahlin, A.
- Bruno Mejías, Miguel
- Ercilla Zárraga, Gemma
- Llave Barranco, Estefanía
- Serra, Nuno
- Puig, P.
- Rebesco, Michele
- Van Rooij, D.
- Roque, David
- González-Pola, César
- Sánchez Aguayo, F.
- Gómez Ballesteros, María
- Preu, Benedict
- Schwenk, T.
- Hanebuth, T. J. J.
- Sánchez Leal, Ricardo F.
- García Lafuente, Jesús
- Brackenridge, R.
- Juan, C.
- Stow, Dorrik A. V.
- Sánchez González, J. M.
- Rosón Porto, Gabriel
ISSN: 0366-0176
Ano de publicación: 2015
Título do exemplar: Procesos geológicos en el margen continental ibérico: nuevos avances y tendencias
Volume: 126
Número: 2-3
Páxinas: 279-326
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Boletín geológico y minero
Resumo
Our understanding of the role of bottom currents and associated oceanographic processes (e.g., overflows, barotropic tidal currents) including intermittent processes (e.g., vertical eddies, deep sea storms, horizontal vortices, internal waves and tsunamis) is rapidly evolving. Many deep-water processes remain poorly understood due to limited direct observations, but may generate significant depositional and erosional features on both short- and long-term time scales. This paper describes these oceanographic processes and examines their potential role in the sedimentary features around the Iberian margin. The paper explores the implications of the processes studied, given their secondary role relative to other factors such as mass-transport and turbiditic processes. An integrated interpretation of these oceanographic processes requires an understanding of contourites, sea-floor features, their spatial and temporal evolution, and the near-bottom flows that form them. Given their complex, three-dimensional and temporally-variable nature, integration of these processes into sedimentary, oceanographic and climatological frameworks will require a multidisciplinary approach that includes Geology, Physical Oceanography, Paleoceanography and Benthic Biology. This approach will synthesize oceanographic data, seafloor morphology, sediments and seismic images to improve our knowledge of permanent and intermittent processes around Iberia, and evaluate their conceptual and regional role in the sedimentary evolution of the margin.