Dome Dunes on the Inner to Middle Shelf Transition on a Temperate-Water Carbonate Sediment Shelf. Pitiusas Islands
Ibiza and Formentera, also known as the Pitiusas Islands, are the westernmost islands of the Balearic archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea. Around them, typical temperate-water carbonate shelves occur. Particular sedimentary processes take place on these shelves, where the lack of a signific...
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| Tipo de recurso: | otro |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/352538 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/352538 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sediment waves Inner shelf Carbonates Sand waves Dome dunes Western Mediterranean Internal waves http://metadata.un.org/sdg/14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development |
| Sumario: | Ibiza and Formentera, also known as the Pitiusas Islands, are the westernmost islands of the Balearic archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea. Around them, typical temperate-water carbonate shelves occur. Particular sedimentary processes take place on these shelves, where the lack of a significant terrigenous sediment supply and a microtidal regime reinforces the importance of seagrass meadows and wind-driven coastal currents in the sediment dynamics. The dome dune field described here is placed just downslope of a centuries-old Posidonia oceanica meadow close to a shallow passage between two islands where wind-driven currents are particularly important. |
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