RT Journal Article
T1 Los deslizamientos submarinos de Águilas (Margen de Palomares, Mediterráneo Occidental)
T1 The Águilas Submarine Slides (Palomares Margin, Western Mediterranean)
A1 Pérez Hernández, Silvia
A1 Comas, Menchu
A1 Escutia, Carlota
A1 Martínez García, Pedro
AB Morphological and structural features observed in both swath bathymetry and parametric sub-bottomprofiles, acquired during the MARSIBAL I-06 cruise, reveal an area highly affected by sedimentary instabilityprocesses at the Águilas Sector in the northern Palomares Margin. Failure scars and deposits, governed bya major lineation of scars -the Águilas Escarpment-, occupy and shape the lower continental slope of thismargin sector and extend till the continental rise. Submarine and buried slides complexes cover an area ofabout 180 km2, and develop from 1600 to 2400 m water depths. High angle faults, which deform theseafloor cause the Águilas Escarpment and diverse small-scale submarine slides. Recent or sub-recentactive tectonics, and the coeval uplifting of the Palomares Margin, is proposed to be the main triggermechanism for the slides. The failure scars favour the evolution of a juvenile submarine canyon (the ÁguilasCanyon) due to retrogressive sliding
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7979
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7979
LA spa
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026