Resumen de Along-slope oceanographic processes and sedimentary products around Iberia

Francisco Javier Hernández Molina, Nuno Serra, Dorrik A. V. Stow

• The present contribution represents the first attempt to comprehensively describe regional along-slope processes and their sedimentary impacts around Iberia, combining numerically simulated bottom currents with existing knowledge of contourite depositional and erosive features. The obtained correlation links the circulation of water masses with the main contourite depositional systems (CDS) and estimates other potential areas where new CDS could be found. Their study should be of great interest not only because of the stratigraphic, sedimentologic, palaeoceanopgraphic and palaeoclimatologic significance, but also because of their relation with possible specific deep marine geohabitats and/or mineral and energy resources.