Multidisciplinary Study of Marine Archives: Reconstruction of Sea-Level, Sediment Yields, Sediment Sources, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography and Vertical Movement on Margins: Examples from the Western Mediterranean Sea

M. Rabineau*, R. Pellen, V. Pasquier, M. Bellucci, S. Badhani, S. Molliex, M. Garcia-Garcia, E. Leroux, M. Arab, D. Do Couto, G. Jouet, F. Bache, M. Gaudin, M. Lafosse, E. Miramontes, J. Lofi, T. dos Reis, M. Moulin, P. Schnurle, J. PoortB. Dennielou, A. Afilhado, S.-M. Popescu, M.-A. Bassetti, S. Toucanne, S. Révillon, A. Cattaneo, P. Le Roy, E. d’Acremont, D. Granjeon, C. Gorini, J.-P. Suc, S. Cloetingh, P. Joseph, F. Guillocheau, S. Berné, L. Droz, J.-L. Rubino, D. Aslanian

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Abstract

The numerous processes (superficial and deep) occurring on margins, their origins, consequences, interactions and quantifications are only very partially described and understood. The identification of the relative role of factors is sometimes completely contradictory between authors. Here, we showed the results of a long-term multidecadal and multidisciplinary study (using geophysical, geological, stratigraphic, paleontological, geomorphologic, geochemical, microbiological and numerical models) in the Western Mediterranean Sea that acts as a natural laboratory at many different scales. We showed how sediments efficiently recorded at the same time: variations of glacio-eustatic sea-level changes, variations of sediments yield and sources, and also enabled quantifying vertical movements and geodynamic worldwide events but also detailed regional mass transport, turbidites and contourites deposits. They are also an archive of paleoclimatic, palaeoceanographic and diagenetic processes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecent Research on Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Marine Geosciences and Geochemistry
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-2), Tunisia 2019
EditorsAttila Çiner, Stefan Grab, Etienne Jaillard, Domenico Doronzo, André Michard, Marina Rabineau, Helder I. Chaminé
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages265-270
Number of pages6
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-72547-1
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-72546-4, 978-3-030-72549-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jan 2022
EventConference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences - Sousse, Tunisia
Duration: 25 Nov 201928 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Science, Technology & Innovation
PublisherSpringer
ISSN (Print)2522-8714
ISSN (Electronic)2522-8722

Conference

ConferenceConference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Abbreviated titleCAJG2019
Country/TerritoryTunisia
CitySousse
Period25/11/1928/11/19

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

  • Contourites
  • Erosion
  • Isostasy
  • Mass-transport
  • Messinian
  • Pliocene
  • Quaternary
  • Sea-level
  • Sediment yields
  • Subsidence

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