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The impact of the Agulhas Current system on sedimentary systems at the southeast African Margin - Shallow, mid- and deep-water contourite formation
Spieß, V. (2014). The impact of the Agulhas Current system on sedimentary systems at the southeast African Margin - Shallow, mid- and deep-water contourite formation, in: Van Rooij, D. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 69: pp. 43-44
In: Van Rooij, D.; Rüggeberg, A. (Ed.) (2014). Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 69. Ghent University, Department of Geology and Soil Science/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Oostende. xviii, 152 pp., more
In: VLIZ Special Publication. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende. ISSN 1377-0950, more

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Keywords
    Sediments > Clastics > Contourites
    Seismic surveys
    ISW, Africa, Southeast [Marine Regions]; ISW, Agulhas Current [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Spieß, V.

Abstract
    Sedimentary systems from Madagascar through Davie Ridge, Zambezi and Limpopo Margin, Natal Valley to the Cape of Good Hope were surveys to prepare the SAFARI drilling proposal 702 to IODP (Hall, Zahn et al.), which is going to be scheduled within the coming years. On the search of suitable drilling locations to study the Agulhas Current paleoceanography in the Neogene, intense interaction with the sedimentary systems was observed in water depths ranging from the shelf edge in front of the Limpopo and Zambezi River, in midwater off Madagascar and on Davie Ridge, to deeper water in the Natal Valley and at the Cape of Good Hope.

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