Morphological properties of moat-drift systems around the world
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To facilitate a comprehensive study of moat-drift systems, we analysed moats from different locations around the world. We measured the following morphological parameters: width, relief, slope angle, drift angle. As there is no moat without an associated drift, we see them as one system that we refer to as a moat-drift system. The moat trough is the deepest point in the moat and the drift crest the shallowest point of the contourite drift. The moat width is defined as the horizontal distance between the drift crest and the slope. The relief is defined as the vertical distance between moat trough and drift crest. The slope angle and the drift angle are the average gradient in both flanks of the moat: 1) between the moat trough and the slope and 2) between the moat trough and the drift crest. The previously published moats were measured from the seismic or sub-bottom profiler cross sections that were published either in a journal or on the GeoMapApp (www.geomapapp.org). In the cases in where multibeam data are available, we measured the parameters from the bathymetric map.
Salt Diapirs, Salt Brine Seeps, Pockmarks and Surficial Sediment Creep and Slides in the Canary Channel off NW Africa
Periplatform drift: The combined result of contour current and off-bank transport along carbonate platforms
Significance of bottom currents in deep-sea morphodynamics: An example from the Alboran Sea
Contourite erosive features caused by the Mediterranean Outflow Water in the Gulf of Cadiz: Quaternary tectonic and oceanographic implications
Seismic stratigraphy, buried beach ridges and contourite drifts: the Late Quaternary history of the closed Lago Cardiel basin, Argentina (49°S)
Evolution of the northern Argentine margin during the Cenozoic controlled by bottom current dynamics and gravitational processes
Contouritic depositional systems influenced by complex seafloor topography : Late Cenozoic seismoacoustic reconstructions from the Galicia and Angola Continental Margins | Media SuUB Bremen
Good neighbours shaped by vigorous currents: Cold-water coral mounds and contourites in the North Atlantic
Evolution of the gulf of Cadiz margin and southwest Portugal contourite depositional system: Tectonic, sedimentary and paleoceanographic implications from IODP expedition 339
Anton Dohrn Seamount and the evolution of the Rockall Trough
An assessment of bottom current controlled sedimentation in Pacific Ocean abyssal environments
Sedimentary evolution of the Le Danois contourite drift systems (southern Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic): A reconstruction of the Atlantic Mediterranean Water circulation since the Pliocene
Contourites along the Iberian continental margins: conceptual and economic implications
Geological Society, London, Special Publications
The Maldives, a giant isolated carbonate platform dominated by bottom currents
Carbonate mounds in the Santaren Channel, Bahamas: A current-dominated periplatform depositional regime
Analysis and modeling of contourite drifts and contour currents off promontories in the Italian Seas (Mediterranean Sea)
Bottom-current sediment waves, sediment drifts and contourites in the northern Rockall Trough
Outer shelf seafloor geomorphology along a carbonate escarpment: The eastern Malta Plateau, Mediterranean Sea
The Pianosa Contourite Depositional System (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea): Drift morphology and Plio-Quaternary stratigraphic evolution
Contourite distribution and bottom currents in the NW Mediterranean Sea: Coupling seafloor geomorphology and hydrodynamic modelling
Contourite and mixed turbidite-contourite systems in the Mozambique Channel (SW Indian Ocean): Link between geometry, sediment characteristics and modelled bottom currents
Gravity Processes and Deposits on Continental Slope, Rise and Abyssal Plains
Deep-Sea Sediments, Developments in Sedimentology, 63, Elsevier
Erosion and deposition beneath the Subantarctic Front since the Early Oligocene
Sequence stratigraphic framework of a mixed turbidite-contourite depositional system along the NW slope of the South China Sea
Interaction between seabed morphology and water masses around the seamounts on the Motril Marginal Plateau (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean)
Evolution of a high-latitude sediment drift inside a glacially-carved trough based on high-resolution seismic stratigraphy (Kveithola, NW Barents Sea)
Sediment distribution around moated seamounts in the Rockall Trough
Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts
Muddy contourites in the Baltic Sea: an example of a shallow-water contourite system
Late Cretaceous to recent ocean-bottom currents in the SW Pacific Gateway, southeastern Chatham Rise, New Zealand
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Late quaternary bottom-current activity in the south Aegean Sea reflecting climate-driven dense-water production
Transition from the Cretaceous ocean to Cenozoic circulation in the western South Atlantic — A twofold reconstruction
Stratigraphy and paleoceanography of a topography-controlled contourite drift in the Pen Duick area, southern Gulf of Cádiz
Short-distance variability in slope bed-forms along the Southwestern Adriatic Margin (Central Mediterranean)
The erosive power of the Malvinas Current: Influence of bottom currents on morpho-sedimentary features along the northern Argentine margin (SW Atlantic Ocean)
The influence of oceanographic processes on contourite features: A multidisciplinary study of the northern South China Sea
In situ observation of contour currents in the northern South China Sea: Applications for deepwater sediment transport
Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts