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Flux and composition of settling particles across the continental margin of the Gulf of Lion: the role of dense shelf water cascading

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dc.creator Pasqual Mas, Catalina
dc.creator Sanchez-Vidal, Anna
dc.creator Zúñiga, Diana
dc.creator Calafat Frau, Antoni
dc.creator Canals Artigas, Miquel
dc.creator Durrieu de Madron, Xavier
dc.creator Puig, Pere
dc.creator Heussner, Serge
dc.creator Palanques Monteys, Albert
dc.creator Delsaut, N.
dc.date 2011-01-13T15:24:47Z
dc.date 2011-01-13T15:24:47Z
dc.date 2010-01-15
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:25:50Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:25:50Z
dc.identifier 1726-4189
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/15284
dc.identifier 587109
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/20099
dc.description Settling particles were collected using sediment traps deployed along three transects in the Lacaze-Duthiers and Cap de Creus canyons and the adjacent southern open slope from October 2005 to October 2006. The settling material was analyzed to obtain total mass fluxes and main constituent contents (organic matter, opal, calcium carbonate, and siliciclastics). Cascades of dense shelf water from the continental shelf edge to the lower continental slope occurred from January to March 2006. They were traced through strong negative near-bottom temperature anomalies and increased current speeds, and generated two intense pulses of mass fluxes in January and March 2006. This oceanographic phenomenon appeared as the major physical forcing of settling particles at almost all stations, and caused both high seasonal variability in mass fluxes and important qualitative changes in settling material. Fluxes during the dense shelf water cascading (DSWC) event ranged from 90.1 g m(-2) d(-1) at the middle Cap de Creus canyon (1000 m) to 3.2 g m(-2) d(-1) at the canyon mouth (1900 m). Fractions of organic matter, opal and calcium carbonate components increased seaward, thus diminishing the siliciclastic fraction. Temporal variability of the major components was larger in the canyon mouth and open slope sites, due to the mixed impact of dense shelf water cascading processes and the pelagic biological production. Results indicate that the cascading event remobilized and homogenized large amounts of material down canyon and southwardly along the continental slope contributing to a better understanding of the off-shelf particle transport and the internal dynamics of DSWC events.
dc.format 15 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher European Geosciences Union
dc.relation Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-217-2010
dc.relation Biogeosciences, 2010, vol. 7, núm. 1, p. 217-231
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-217-2010
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/226354/EU//HERMIONE
dc.rights (c) cc-by Pasqual, et al., 2010
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Articles publicats en revistes (Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà)
dc.subject Marges continentals
dc.subject Continental margins
dc.title Flux and composition of settling particles across the continental margin of the Gulf of Lion: the role of dense shelf water cascading
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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