@misc{10508/9784,
editor = {Díaz-del-Río-Español, V. (Víctor)},
editor = {Bárcenas, P.},
editor = {Fernández-Salas, L.M. (Luis Miguel)},
editor = {López-González, N. (Nieves)},
editor = {Palomino, D. (Desirée)},
editor = {Rueda, J.L. (José Luis)},
editor = {Sánchez-Guillamón, O. (Olga)},
editor = {Vázquez, J.T. (Juan Tomás)},
year = {2015},
month = {9},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10508/9784},
abstract = {The Passage of Lanzarote is an example of a wide oceanic corridor. It extends between the
eastern Canary Islands and the Western Africa continental margin. Seafloor morphology of this
passage has been analyzed with the aim to know the morphogenetic processes related to both the
oceanography and the geology. Multibeam bathymetric data and high and very high resolution
seismic profiles obtained in the SUBVENT2 cruise have been used. Five main morphological groups
were analyzed: (a) Volcanic or diapiric submarine hills; (b) Tectonic features on the continental slope
(linear scarps and a rhomboid-like depression) related to normal faults at the top of buried diapirs;
(c) Giant circular depressions initially triggered by submarine venting at the top of diapirs; (d)
Sedimentary instabilities and canyons (gullies, canyons, mass transport deposits) that are present
specially on the Fuerteventura-Lanzarote ridge must be related to the high energy geological
processes, both constructive and dismantling, associated to the evolution of these volcanic domains;
and (e) Contouritic features both erosive (central channel, contourite channels) and depositional
(mounded and plastered drifts) that occur in the central part of the bottom surface of the passage,
and are generated by the interaction of the MW and the interface MW-AAIW with the seafloor.},
publisher = {Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Ediciones Sia Graf},
keywords = {Morphology},
keywords = {bottom-current interaction},
keywords = {submarine hills},
keywords = {West Africa Margin},
keywords = {Canary Islands},
title = {Geomorphological characteristics of the Passage of Lanzarote (East Canary Islands Region).},
author = {Vázquez, J.T. (Juan Tomás) and Palomino, D. (Desirée) and Sánchez-Guillamón, O. (Olga) and Somoza, L. and Fernández-Puga, M.C. and Fernández-Salas, L.M. (Luis Miguel) and Medialdea, T. and Fraile-Nuez, E. (Eugenio) and González, F.J. and León, R. and López-González, N. (Nieves)},
}