PP51E:
The Palaeoceanographic Value of Contourite Archives Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium and Brian Romans, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium
Co-conveners:  Brian Romans, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1167
 
Welcoming Remarks
1168
 
What Drives Mediterranean Outflow Water Variability during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition and Early Pleistocene at IODP Site U1387 in the Gulf of Cadiz?
Antje H L Voelker1, Francisco Javier Jimenez-Espejo2, Andre Bahr3, Gary Acton4, Ana Alberto1, Andreia Rebotim1,5, Emilia Salgueiro1 and Ursula Roehl5, (1)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology - JAMSTEC, Department of Biogeochemistry, Yokosuka-city, Japan, (3)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, (4)Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, United States, (5)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
1169
 
Structure and Variability of Mediterranean Outflow Water Flow Recorded in Contourite Layers in the Gulf of Cadiz and west of Portugal
Roger D Flood, Stony Brook Univ, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Emmanuelle Ducassou, Université de Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5850 EPOC, 33615 Pessac cedex, France
1170
 
Late Pliocene History of Mediterranean Outflow Water in the Gulf of Cadiz (IODP Expedition 339, Site U1389)
Patrick Grunert1, Barbara Balestra2, Jose'-Abel Flores3, Francisco J Sierro3, Ángela García Gallardo1, Werner E Piller1 and Marie-Pierre Aubry4, (1)University of Graz, Institute for Earth Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)UC Santa Cruz HSSI Program, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (4)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
1171
 
Temperature and Productivity Variability Along the Southwestern Portuguese Margin During the Onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Emilia Salgueiro1,2, Antje H L Voelker1,2, Fatima F G Abrantes1,2, Teresa Rodrigues1,2, Francisco J Sierro3, David A Hodell4, Ana Alberto1 and Pedro Seabra Freitas1,2, (1)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal, (2)Cimar, Porto, Portugal, (3)University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (4)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
1172
 
Microstructure of muddy contourites from the Gulf of Cadiz (IODP Exp. 339)
Naohisa Nishida, Geological Survey of Japan, Institute of Geology and Geoinformation, Tsukuba, Japan
1173
 
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
Satoshi Furota and Ken Sawada, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
1174
 
Obstacle-related contourites in the El Arraiche area, southern Gulf of Cádiz.
Thomas Vandorpe, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, David Van Rooij, Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium, Ines Martins, Portuguese Hydrographic Institute, Lissabon, Portugal and Dierk Hebbeln, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
1175
 
Buried Cold-Water Coral Mound Provinces and Contourite Drifts Along the Eastern Atlantic Margin: Controls, Interactions and Connectivity
David Van Rooij1, Thomas Vandorpe2, Stanislas Delivet1, Dierk Hebbeln3, Claudia Wienberg3 and Ines Martins4, (1)Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium, (2)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (3)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (4)Portuguese Hydrographic Institute, Lissabon, Portugal
1176
 
Cenozoic Circulation History of the North Atlantic Ocean From Seismic Stratigraphy of the Newfoundland Ridge Drift Complex
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, Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space & Astronomical Research, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
1177
 
Contourite Deposition in the North Atlantic Ocean Moderated By Mantle Plume Activity: Evidence from Seismic Reflection Images
Ross E Parnell-Turner1, I.N. Nicholas McCave1, Nicholas J White1, Timothy Henstock2, Bramley J Murton3 and Stephen M Jones4, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
1178
 
Quaternary Contourite Drifts of the Western Spitsbergen Margin
Jan Sverre Laberg1, Michele Rebesco2, Anna Wahlin3, Ursula Schauer4, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller5, Renata G. Lucchi2, Riko Noormets6, Daniela Accettella2, Yulia Zarayskaya7 and Paolo Diviacco2, (1)University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, (2)National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics OGS, Trieste, Italy, (3)University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)Institute of Oceanology PAS, Physical Oceanography Dept., Sopot, Poland, (6)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, (7)Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Ocean Floor Geomorphology and Tectonics, Geological Institute, Moscow, Russia
1179
 
The Upper Pliocene–Quaternary Evolution of the Ioffe Calcareous Contourite Drift, Western South Atlantic.
Dmitrii Borisov, Ivar Murdmaa, Elena V. Ivanova, Oleg Levchenko, Olga Dmitrenko and Emelyan Emelyanov, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia
1180
 
The Effect of Local Topographic Unevenness on Contourite Paleo-Deposition Around Marine Capes: A Novel "Geostrophic Cascade" in Cape Suvero and Cape Cilento (Tyrrhenian Sea)
Ettore Salusti, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Rome,, Bologna, Italy, Francesco Latino Chiocci, Università la Sapienza, Scienze della Terra, Rome, Italy, Eleonora Martorelli, CNR-IGAG, Rome, Italy and Federico Falcini, CNR-ISAC, Rome, Italy
1181
 
Grain Size Biasing of 230Th-derived Focusing Factors in the Panama Basin
Matthew Robert Loveley1, Franco Marcantonio2, Mitchell W Lyle2, Rami Ibrahim1, Jessica K Wang3 and Jennifer E Hertzberg1, (1)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Texas A & M University, Plano, TX, United States
 
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