Contourite Drifts on canyon heads related to the Mediterranean Outflow Water in the Ortegal Marginal Platform (Northwestern of Iberian Peninsula)

• Gloria Jané ^[1] ; Adolfo Maestro ^[1] ; Estefanía Llave ^[1] ; Jerónimo López-Martínez ^[2] ; Francisco J. Hernández-Molina ^[3] ; David Van Rooij ^[4] ; José R. De-Andrés ^[1] ; Daniel González-Aller ^[6] ; Manuel Catalán-Morollón ^[5]
  1. [1] Instituto Geológico y Minero de España

     Instituto Geológico y Minero de España

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

     Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
  3. [3] Universidade de Vigo

     Universidade de Vigo

     Vigo, España

     
  4. [4] Ghent University

     Ghent University

     Arrondissement Gent, Bélgica

     
  5. [5] Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada

     Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada

     San Fernando, España

     
  6. [6] Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina

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• Localización: Geotemas (Madrid), ISSN 1576-5172, Nº. 11, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Deep-Water Circulation: Processes & Products. International Congress. Baitona, Pontevedra, Spain. 16 & 17 June 2010), págs. 83-84
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  • Contourite drifts on canyon heads at the NW of the Ortegal Marginal Platform are observed. Although they are located on the upper slope and above the influence zone of the Mediterranean Outflow Water, some filaments of the upper core of this water mass flowing along the Galician continental slope could have flowed during the Pliocene and Quaternary to the East confined into the A Coruña and Ferrol canyons.