After the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform during the spring of 2010, the northern Gulf of Mexico was threatened by an oil spill from the Macondo well. Emergency responders were concerned about oil transport in the nearshore, where it threatened immediately the fishing waters and coastline from Louisiana to Florida. In this region, oil movement was influenced by a continen...

Based on seven measured sections from Svalbard, the marine strata of the Permian Kapp Starostin Formation are arranged into seven transgressive–regressive sequences (TR1–TR7) of c. 4– 5 Ma average duration, each bound by a maximum regressive surface. Facies, including heterozoandominated limestones, spiculitic cherts, sandstones, siltstones and shales, record deposition within inner, middle and...

Bivalve molluscs is one of the dominant benthic groups in soft-sediment communities off Atlantic Ocean, including European margin and Bay Biscay. The current knowledge deep-sea Euro-Atlantic bivalves their distribution still far from comprehensive has been scope several recent publications. We examined collected bivalve samples two oceanographic campaigns (COCACE BIOCANT) carried out central Bi...

Late Holocene ostracods were recovered from marine sediments of the Chao Phraya delta at a whale-fall excavation site located fifteen kilometers on land in Am Pang Subdistrict, Ban Paew District, Samut Sakhon Province, north Gulf Thailand. Thirteen species belonging to seven genera are identified. The deposition environment succession is for first time characterized. ostracod assemblages sugges...

The Atchafalaya River in Louisiana shares the third largest drainage basin in the world with the Mississippi River. Sediment cores and seismic profiles were used to examine the development and impact on land accretion of an early-stage subaqueous delta accumulating on the shallow (b25 m water depth) continental shelf seaward of the Atchafalaya River mouths in the period (~100 years) since the A...