The location of two hemipelagic sequences, at the northern and southern edges of the Aquitaine shelf offers the possibility of obtaining a synoptic view of the southern Bay of Biscay oceanography, but also provides access to key contextual elements related to local and global forcing. These sequences were retrieved off the two main fluvial tributaries along the Aquitaine margin (southern Bay of Biscay) from the West Gironde mud patch and from the [...]