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Jan 15, 2021 · The El Gordo Megabed from the Tabernas basin in Almeria, Spain. El Gordo which directly translates to the Fat Megabed is a fitting name for this huge sedimentary structure. The photo was taken on the morning after St.Patricks day on a field camp for Irish students.
Gordo megabed: a possible seismite in a tortonian submarine fan ...
Feb 1, 1987 · One of the megabeds, the Gordo megabed, overlies dislocated and deformed fan-lobe and basin-plain deposits. The megabed, with a thickness of up to 40 m, has a sheet-like geometry and consists of four superimposed sedimentary units.
The Tabernas basin, located in South-East Spain (Fig. 1), contains us a unique and impressive sedimentary stratigraphic record expressing thick mass flow deposits with often large schistose blocks, termed megabeds. The megabeds, and in particular the thickest most widespread megabed called the Gordo
Gordo megabed: a possible seismite in a tortonian submarine fan ...
Feb 1, 1987 · One of the megabeds, the Gordo megabed, overlies dislocated and deformed fan-lobe and basin-plain deposits. The megabed, with a thickness of up to 40 m, has a sheet-like geometry and consists of four superimposed sedimentary units.
Evolution of a Fault-Controlled, Deep-Water Sub-Basin, Tabernas, SE Spain
Nov 3, 2021 · These illustrated the broad distribution of turbidite facies and highlighted the basin-wide distribution of a distinctive marker bed, a very thick ( + 60 m) debrite-turbidite couplet which was termed the Gordo Megabed (Kleverlaan 1987).
Unravelling the tectonic regime: Almeria, Spain
May 24, 2017 · El Gordo is a very large, odd sedimentary feature in the Tabernas Basin the nature of which is highly debated. The students took part in animated discussions to try and ascertain how El Gordo formed, a giant rip-up clast or the result of seismic slumping?
Evolving turbidite systems on a deforming basin floor, Tabernas, SE Spain
Apr 21, 2002 · The Tabernas-Sorbas basin was a narrow, east-west trending, marine trough of Late Miocene age. Sediment gravity flow deposits dominate the basin fill and provide a record of changing bathymetry in response to tectonically induced sea bed deformation.
The provenance of a turbidite system within a tectonically active ...
Jan 25, 2024 · The Verdelecho Formation is capped by the El Gordo Megabed (Figure 4E,F), which is a seismite feature that extends across the basin from Buho Canyon in the north to Cerro Pedro 10 km to the south (Figure 2), with additional less voluminous megabeds at higher stratigraphic levels.
The provenance of a turbidite system within a tectonically active ...
Jan 25, 2024 · In particular, there was a shift in detrital garnet composition between the Sartenella Formation and the Verdelecho Formation, Solitary Channel and El Gordo Megabed, which is attributed here to...
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