Examples of Sediment Waves in and Around Submarine Canyons of the North Alboran Sea
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Araceli Muñoz; César León; Elena Elvira; Patricia Jiménez; Juan Acosta
- Source
- Atlas of Bedforms in the Western Mediterranean ISBN: 9783319339382
- Subject
- Canyon
geography
Bedform
Turbidity current
geography.geographical_feature_category
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Continental shelf
Sediment
Submarine canyon
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
Oceanography
Meander
Bathymetry
Geomorphology
Geology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
- Language
Swath bathymetry in the north Alboran Sea shows different types of sediment waves associated with submarine canyons. Bedforms are located in the channel axis, on the levee backslopes of a meander and on the fan lobe developed at the mouth of the canyons. They probably represent different responses to turbidity current flows and suggest active sediment dynamics (at present and/or in the past) in this area.