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Year: 1972

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: The Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne) is bounded on the northeast side by the rather broad continental shelf off France and the even broader shelf southwest of the British Isles across which sediments have been transported from the Irish Sea, and from the North Sea through the English Channel.On the southern side of the bay off Spain, the continental shelf is narrow and the continental slope is extremely steep.The floor of the Bay of Biscay slopes gently to the south and west, the result of a supply of terrigenous material from the northeast through numerous submarine canyons and especially from the Cap Breton Canyon in the eastern corner.The continental rise is well developed at the foot of the French slope and merges gradually into the Biscay

Source: U.S. Government Printing Office eBooks

DOI: 10.2973/dsdp.proc.12.109.1972

Authors: A.S. Laughton, W.A. Berggren, R.N. Benson, T.A. Davies, U. Franz, L.F. Musich, K. Perch-Nielsen, A.S. Ruffman, J.E. van Hinte, R.B. Whitmarsh, F. Aumento, A.D. Clarke, P.J.C. Ryall, J.R. Cann, W.B. Bryan, D. Bukry

Institutions: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Augustana College, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Copenhagen, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Imperial Oil (Canada), Dalhousie University, University of East Anglia

Language: English

SDG: Life below water

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4252871985

Cites: 14

Cited by: 2

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