We present the results of an integrated geomorphological and seismo-stratigraphic study based on high resolution marine data acquired in north-western Sicilian continental margin. document for first time five contourite drifts (marked as EM1a, EM2b, EM2, EM3a, EM3b), located slope at depths between ca. 400 1500 m. EM1a,b have been interpreted elongated mounded drifts. are 3 km long, 1.3 wide, a...

The interaction of sedimentary systems with oceanographic processes in deep-water environments is not well understood yet, despite its importance for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, and a full understanding source-to-sink sediment transport. aim this study to improve the how contourite moats, elongated depressions formed by bottom currents associated drifts, develop link between moat-drift...