Abstract
The Celtic Fan (Evans 1996; Droz et al. 1999; Auffret et al. 2000) is a radial turbidite accumulation at the mouth of the two main systems of canyons of the Celtic margin: the Whittard System to the west and the Shamrock System to the east (Fig. 1).
The Celtic Fan was fed by the two main systems of canyons of the Celtic margin: Shamrock system on the southeastern side, and Whittard system on the northwestern side of the margin. On the outer shelf, the Celtic sand banks are remnants of the large delta of the “Fleuve Manche”, which supplied the fan with coarse sediments during part of its development. The main channel of the fan, the Celtic Channel, is presently connected to the Whittard Canyon. b Fan deposition was periodically disturbed by mass movements (debris-flows) that only affected fan fringes and did not strongly influence the architecture of the fan. SEDIFAN cruises, in the framework of ENAM II program collected, among other data, 6-channel high resolution (blue lines) and PASISAR (red lines) very high resolution seismic profiles.
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Droz, L., Auffret, G.A., Savoye, B. (2003). The Celtic Deep-Sea Fan: Seismic Facies, Architecture and Stratigraphy. In: Mienert, J., Weaver, P. (eds) European Margin Sediment Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55846-7_38
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