Journal
MARINE GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH
Volume 32, Issue 1-2, Pages 49-69Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11001-011-9125-1
Keywords
Undulated sediments; Prodeltas; Slope failure; Sediment waves; Hyperpycnal flows; Internal waves
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- IUGS
- UNESCO
- French ANR
- EC [EVR1-CT-2002-40024]
- Office of Naval Research, NICOP [N00014-02-1-0252]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2009-SGR-146]
- Seismic Microtechnology
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Most Mediterranean prodeltas show undulated sediment features on the foresets of their Holocene wedges. These features have been described all along the Mediterranean for the last 30 years and interpreted as either soft sediment deformation and incipient landsliding, and more recently, as sediment transport structures. We perform a review and detailed analysis of these undulated sediment features using ultrahigh-resolution seismic and bathymetric data as well as geotechnical information and hydrodynamic time series and hydrographic transects. In this study we show that the characteristics of the sediment undulations (configuration of the reflections down section and between adjacent undulations and overall morphologic characteristics) are incompatible with a genesis by sediment deformation alone and do not show evidence of sediment deformation in most cases. Various processes in the benthic boundary layer can be invoked to explain the variety of features observed in the numerous areas displaying sediment undulations.
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