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Several tributaries highly incised in the continental margin merge in the Almanzora-Alías-Garrucha Canyon, on the lower slope of the Vera Gulf. This canyon generated a turbidite system and a submarine fan at the mouth, where a field of large sediment waves developed at about 2500 m water depth. These sediment waves reach maximum heights and wavelengths of 80 m and 4.5 km, respectively, and are preferentially orientated N-S. The sediment waves display an upslope migration and are interpreted as being associated with supercritical turbidity currents.
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Jiménez, P., Elvira, E., Muñoz, A., Acosta, J. (2017). Sediment Waves at the Mouth of the Almanzora-Alías-Garrucha Canyon. In: Guillén, J., Acosta, J., Chiocci, F., Palanques, A. (eds) Atlas of Bedforms in the Western Mediterranean. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33940-5_39
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