PP51E:
The Palaeoceanographic Value of Contourite Archives Posters

Session ID#: 1781

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Gent, Belgium and Brian Romans, Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States
Primary Convener:  David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Gent, Belgium
Co-Convener:  Brian Romans, Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Gent, Belgium
Index Terms:

3002 Continental shelf and slope processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3036 Ocean drilling [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Welcoming Remarks
 
What Drives Mediterranean Outflow Water Variability during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition and Early Pleistocene at IODP Site U1387 in the Gulf of Cadiz? (Invited) (5334)
Antje H L Voelker1, Francisco José Javier Jiménez-Espejo2, Andre Bahr3, Gary D. Acton4, Ana Alberto5, Andreia Rebotim5,6, Emilia Salgueiro1 and Ursula Roehl6, (1)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Alges, Portugal, (2)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Armilla, Spain, (3)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, (4)Texas A&M University, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, United States, (5)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal, (6)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
 
Structure and Variability of Mediterranean Outflow Water Flow Recorded in Contourite Layers in the Gulf of Cadiz and west of Portugal (Invited) (5813)
Roger D Flood, Stony Brook Univ, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Emmanuelle Ducassou, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, EPHE, INP, EPOC, UMR 5805, Pessac, France
 
Late Pliocene History of Mediterranean Outflow Water in the Gulf of Cadiz (IODP Expedition 339, Site U1389) (25159)
Patrick Grunert, University of Graz, Institute of Earth Sciences, Graz, Austria, Barbara Balestra, UC Santa Cruz HSSI Program, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, José-Abel Flores, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, Francisco J Sierro, University of Salamanca, Department of Geology, Salamanca, Spain, Angela Garcia Gallardo, University of Graz, Institute for Earth Sciences, Graz, Austria, Werner E Piller, University of Graz, Institute of Earth Sciences, NAWI Graz Geocenter, Graz, Austria and Marie-Pierre Aubry, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
 
Temperature and Productivity Variability Along the Southwestern Portuguese Margin During the Onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (22000)
Emilia Salgueiro1,2, Antje H L Voelker1,2, Fatima F G Abrantes2,3, Teresa Rodrigues1,2, Francisco J Sierro4, David A Hodell5, Ana Alberto6 and Pedro Seabra Freitas2,6, (1)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Alges, Portugal, (2)Cimar, Porto, Portugal, (3)Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Avenida de Brasília 6, Lisboa, 1449-006, Portugal, Lisboa, 1449-006, Portugal, Portugal, (4)University of Salamanca, Department of Geology, Salamanca, Spain, (5)University of Cambridge, Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (6)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal
 
Microstructure of muddy contourites from the Gulf of Cadiz (IODP Exp. 339) (20354)
Naohisa Nishida, Geological Survey of Japan, Institute of Geology and Geoinformation, Tsukuba, Japan
 
Marine primary production changes recorded by algal biomarkers in sediments from West Iberian Margin and Gulf of Cadiz during the latest Miocene to mid Pleistocene (31694)
Satoshi Furota, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan and Ken Sawada, Hokkaido University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sapporo, Japan
 
Obstacle-related contourites in the El Arraiche area, southern Gulf of Cádiz. (16284)
Thomas Vandorpe, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Gent, Belgium, Ines Martins, Portuguese Hydrographic Institute, Lissabon, Portugal and Dierk Hebbeln, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
 
Buried Cold-Water Coral Mound Provinces and Contourite Drifts Along the Eastern Atlantic Margin: Controls, Interactions and Connectivity (10231)
David Van Rooij1, Thomas Vandorpe2, Stanislas Delivet3, Dierk Hebbeln4, Claudia Wienberg4, Ines Martins5 and the Belgica COMIC, MD194 Gateway and MSM36 MoccoMeBo shipboard scientific parties, (1)Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Gent, Belgium, (2)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (3)Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium, (4)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (5)Portuguese Hydrographic Institute, Lissabon, Portugal
 
Cenozoic Circulation History of the North Atlantic Ocean From Seismic Stratigraphy of the Newfoundland Ridge Drift Complex (14335)
Patrick R Boyle1, Brian Romans1, Richard D Norris2, Brian E Tucholke3, Stephen A Swift3 and Philip F. Sexton4, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)The Open University, School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
 
Contourite Deposition in the North Atlantic Ocean Moderated By Mantle Plume Activity: Evidence from Seismic Reflection Images (8707)
Ross E Parnell-Turner1, I. Nicholas McCave2, Nicholas J White1, Timothy Henstock3, Bramley J Murton4 and Stephen M Jones5, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom
 
Quaternary Contourite Drifts of the Western Spitsbergen Margin (Invited) (12113)
Jan Sverre Laberg1, Michele Rebesco2, Anna Wahlin3, Ursula Schauer4, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Moeller5, Renata G. Lucchi2, Riko Noormets6, Daniela Accettella2, Yulia Zarayskaya7 and Paolo Diviacco8, (1)University of Tromsø, Department of Geosciences, Tromsø, Norway, (2)National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics OGS, Trieste, Italy, (3)University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, (6)School of Marine, Geology, and Geophysics, University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, (7)Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Ocean Floor Geomorphology and Tectonics, Geological Institute, Moscow, Russia, (8)National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy
 
The Upper Pliocene–Quaternary Evolution of the Ioffe Calcareous Contourite Drift, Western South Atlantic. (8059)
Dmitrii Borisov, Ivar Murdmaa, Elena V. Ivanova, Oleg V Levchenko, Olga Dmitrenko and Emelyan Emelyanov, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia
 
Grain Size Biasing of 230Th-derived Focusing Factors in the Panama Basin (29570)
Matthew Robert Loveley1, Franco Marcantonio2, Mitchell W Lyle3, Rami Ibrahim1, Jessica K Wang4 and Jennifer E Hertzberg5, (1)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University College Station, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Texas A & M University, Plano, TX, United States, (5)University of Connecticut, Avery Point, CT, United States