With this contribution we use a pair of overlapping 3D seismic surveys and two exploration wells to document the response long-lived slope channels onset bottom currents sweeping lower in NE Rockall Basin, offshore Ireland. Downslope gravity current activity, linked phase uplift, prevailed throughout Eocene led formation multiple channels, most notably large-scale sinuous channel complex (Chann...

Depositional systems accumulating under the combined influence of along-slope currents and downslope sediment-gravity flows are frequent in several continental margins. Despite being well-documented terms how these opposing depositional processes shape margin architecture, many aspects related to their interaction distinctive characters resulting sediment accumulations remain elusive. Here we f...

Studies of the most surficial sedimentary record from passive continental margins provide crucial knowledge about dynamics and its changes through recent geological times. These studies allow understanding in detail influence both tectonic activity long-term bottom-current circulation over Late Quaternary dynamics. Using a large dataset multibeam bathymetry, chirp multi-channel seismic (MCS) re...

Over the last few years, recognition and characterization of sedimentary processes in fine-grained successions is receiving considerable attention part due to increased importance unconventional reservoirs. Recent sedimentologic analyses these have revealed abundant traction transport structures that suggest bottom current activity different origins. The present study constitutes a detailed ana...

This study presents novel findings on the Pliocene and Quaternary evolution of Gela Basin (Strait Sicily, Mediterranean Sea), an area recording interaction between tectonics, climate change at Milankovitch sub-Milankovitch timescales, dynamic water masses exchange eastern western Sea. The calibration seismic profiles with exploration boreholes allowed for refining chronostratigraphic framework ...

The Atlantic Irish Regional Survey (AIRS96) sidescan sonar survey was carried out in August 1996. Covering an area of 200,000 km 2 it represented the largest reconnaissance seabed survey of the Irish Continental Shelf region. It covered both margins, together with much of the basin floor, of the Irish sector of the Rockall Trough and extended into the northern part of the Porcupine Seabight. Th...

The thick sequence of Quaternary sediments preserved within the northern North Sea contains important information about glacial history, palaeo-oceanographic conditions and slope stability this region during last 2.6 million years. interplay between glacial, fluvial contouritic processes can be determined from seismic stratigraphic studies. Here, horizon, attribute geomorphological interpretati...

The Neogene and Quaternary sediments of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel and West Shetland shelf and slope rest upon a major regional unconformity, the Latest Oligocene Unconformity (LOU), and have been deposited through the interaction of downslope and parallel-to-slope depositional processes. The upper to middle continental slope is dominated by mass-transport deposits (debris flows), which progre...