TY - JOUR T1 - The French Atlantic margin and deep-sea submarine systems A1 - Bourillet,Jean-Francois A1 - Zaragosi,S A1 - Mulder,T AD - IFREMER, Lab Evironm Sedimentaires, F-29280 Plouzane, France. AD - Univ Bordeaux 1, Dept Geol & Oceanog, UMR 5805, EPOC, F-33405 Talence, France. UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/2137/ DO - 10.1007/s00367-006-0042-2 KW - Sedimentology KW - Geomorphologya KW - Deep sea KW - Bay of Biscay KW - French Atlantic margin N2 - The sedimentary infill of the Bay of Biscay off Ireland, UK, France and Spain took place in four phases. The last one (35 Ma to present) is characterised by gravitational, pelagic, contouritic and glacigenic processes leading to the setup of three deep sea systems. To the North, the Celtic and Armorican fans are fed by a "canyon-dominated" margin and its connection with the "Manche" palaeoriver, which drained a large area of western Europe. To the South, the Cap-Ferret fan results from the evolution of a "tectonic-dominated" margin and the erosion of the Pyrenee mountains. Y1 - 2006/12 PB - Springer JF - Geo-Marine Letters SN - 0276-0460 VL - 26 IS - 6 SP - 311 EP - 315 ID - 2137 ER -