Distinguishing Sediment Bedforms from Sediment Deformation in Prodeltas of the Mediterranean Sea
Most Mediterranean prodeltas show undulated sediments on the foresets of their Holocene
wedges. These features have been described all along the Mediterranean and interpreted
as either soft sediment deformation and landsliding and, more recently, as sediment
bedforms. We present a detailed analysis of these features using ultrahighresolution
seismic and bathymetric data as well as geotechnical information and hydrodynamic
time series and hydrographic transects. We show that the characteristics of the
sediment undulations (morphologic and configuration of the reflections down section
and between adjacent undulations) are incompatible with a genesis by sediment deformation
alone.
URGELES Roger;
CATTANEO Antonio;
PUIG Pere;
LIQUETE GARCIA Maria Del Camino;
DE MOL Ben;
SULTAN Nabil;
TRINCARDI Fabio;
2012-05-24
Springer
JRC64076
978-94-007-2161-6,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC64076,
10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_21,
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