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Ploughing the deep sea floor by Puig, Pere, Canals, Miquel, Company, Joan B., Martín, Jacobo, Amblas, David, Lastras, Galderic, Palanques, Albert, Calafat, Antoni M.

“…Bottom trawling is a fishing technique whereby heavy nets and gear scrape along the sea bed, and is shown here to disturb sediment fluxes and modify the sea…”
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The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris by Woodall, Lucy C., Sanchez-Vidal, Anna, Canals, Miquel, Paterson, Gordon L.J., Coppock, Rachel, Sleight, Victoria, Calafat, Antonio, Rogers, Alex D., Narayanaswamy, Bhavani E., Thompson, Richard C.

“…Marine debris, mostly consisting of plastic, is a global problem, negatively impacting wildlife, tourism and shipping. However, despite the durability of…”
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Impacts on the deep-sea ecosystem by a severe coastal storm by Sànchez Vidal, Anna, Canals Artigas, Miquel, Calafat Frau, Antoni, Lastras Membrive, Galderic, Pedrosa Pàmies, Rut, Menéndez, Melisa, Medina, Raúl, Company, Joan B, Hereu Fina, Bernat, Romero, Javier (Romero Martinengo), Alcoverro i Pedrola, Teresa

“…Major coastal storms, associated with strong winds, high waves and intensified currents, and occasionally with heavy rains and flash floods, are mostly known…”
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Impacts on the deep-sea ecosystem by a severe coastal storm by Sanchez-Vidal, Anna, Canals, Miquel, Calafat, Antoni M, Lastras, Galderic, Pedrosa-Pàmies, Rut, Menéndez, Melisa, Medina, Raúl, Company, Joan B, Hereu, Bernat, Romero, Javier, Alcoverro, Teresa

“…Major coastal storms, associated with strong winds, high waves and intensified currents, and occasionally with heavy rains and flash floods, are mostly known…”
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Deep-water formation variability in the north-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2500yr: A proxy validation with present-day data by Cisneros Bermejo, Mercè, Cacho Lascorz, Isabel, Frigola Ferrer, Jaime I, Sànchez Vidal, Anna, Calafat Frau, Antoni, Pedrosa Pàmies, Rut, Rumín Caparrós, Aitor, Canals Artigas, Miquel

“…Here we investigate the sensitivity of deep-water formation in the north-western Mediterranean Sea to climate variability during the last 2500 yr. With this…”
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Sediment transport to the deep canyons and open-slope of the western Gulf of Lions during the 2006 intense cascading and open-sea convection period by Palanques, A, Puig, P, Durrieu de Madron, X, Sanchez-Vidal, A, Pasqual, C, Martín, J, Calafat, A, Heussner, S, Canals, M

“…An array of mooring lines deployed between 300 and 1900m depth along the Lacaze-Duthiers and Cap de Creus canyons and in the adjacent southern open slope was…”
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Particle sources and downward fluxes in the eastern Fram strait under the influence of the west Spitsbergen current by Sanchez-Vidal, Anna, Veres, Oriol, Langone, Leonardo, Ferré, Benedicte, Calafat, Antoni, Canals, Miquel, Durrieu de Madron, Xavier, Heussner, Serge, Mienert, Jurgen, Grimalt, Joan O., Pusceddu, Antonio, Danovaro, Roberto

“…The carbon cycle of the Arctic Ocean is tightly regulated by land–atmosphere–cryosphere–ocean interactions. Characterizing these environmental exchanges and…”
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Carbon dynamics within cyclonic eddies: insights from a biomarker study by Alonso-González, Iván J, Arístegui, Javier, Lee, Cindy, Sanchez-Vidal, Anna, Calafat, Antoni, Fabrés, Joan, Sangrá, Pablo, Mason, Evan

“…It is generally assumed that episodic nutrient pulses by cyclonic eddies into surface waters support a significant fraction of the primary production in…”
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Bioavailability of sinking organic matter in the Blanes canyon and the adjacent open slope (NW Mediterranean Sea) by Lopez-Fernandez, P, Bianchelli, S, Pusceddu, A, Calafat, A, Sanchez-Vidal, A, Danovaro, R

“…Submarine canyons are sites of intense energy and material exchange between the shelf and the deep adjacent basins. To test the hypothesis that active…”
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Sediment transport along the Cap de Creus Canyon flank during a mild, wet winter by Martín, J, Durrieu de Madron, X, Puig, P, Bourrin, F, Palanques, A, Houpert, L, Higueras, M, Sanchez-Vidal, A, Calafat, A. M, Canals, M, Heussner, S, Delsaut, N, Sotin, C

“…Cap de Creus Canyon (CCC) is known as a preferential conduit for particulate matter leaving the Gulf of Lion continental shelf towards the slope and the basin,…”
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Flux and composition of settling particles across the continental margin of the Gulf of Lion: the role of dense shelf water cascading by Pasqual, C., Sanchez-Vidal, A., Zúñiga, D., Calafat, A., Canals, M., Durrieu de Madron, X., Puig, P., Heussner, S., Palanques, A., Delsaut, N.

“…Settling particles were collected using sediment traps deployed along three transects in the Lacaze-Duthiers and Cap de Creus canyons and the adjacent southern…”
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External forcings, oceanographic processes and particle flux dynamics in Cap de Creus submarine canyon, NW Mediterranean Sea by Rumín-Caparrós, A, Sanchez-Vidal, A, Calafat, A, Canals, M, Martín, J, Puig, P, Pedrosa-Pàmies, R

“…Particle fluxes (including major components and grain size), and oceanographic parameters (near-bottom water temperature, current speed and suspended sediment…”
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An introduction to Mediterranean deep-sea biology by Sardà, Francisco, Calafat, Antoni, Flexas, Mª Mar, Tselepides, Anastasios, Canals, Miquel, Espino, Manuel, Tursi, Angelo

“…This chapter presents the state of the art concerning the deep-sea Mediterranean environment: geology, hydrology, biology and fisheries. These are the fields…”
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Reexposure and advection of C-14-depleted organic carbon from old deposits at the upper continental slope by Tesi, Tomaseo, Goñi, Miguel A, Langone, Leonardo, Puig, Pere, Canals Artigas, Miquel, Nittrouer, Charles A, Madron, Xavier Durrieu de, Calafat Frau, Antoni, Palanques Monteys, Albert, Heussner, Serge, Davies, Maureen H, Drexler, Tina M, Fabrés Francés, Joan, Miserocchi, Stefano

“…Outcrops of old strata at the shelf edge resulting from erosive gravity-driven flows have been globally described on continental margins. The reexposure of old…”
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Sediment undulations on the Llobregat prodelta: Signs of early slope instability or sedimentary bedforms? by Urgeles, Roger, De Mol, Ben, Liquete, Camino, Canals, Miquel, De Batist, Marc, Hughes‐Clarke, John E., Amblàs, David, Arnau, Pedro A., Calafat, Antoni M., Casamor, José L., Centella, Víctor, De Rycker, Koen, Fabrés, Joan, Frigola, Jaime, Lafuerza, Sara, Lastras, Galderic, Sànchez, Anna, Zuñiga, Diana, Versteeg, Wim, Willmott, Verónica

“…A field of sediment undulations has been mapped by means of high‐resolution multibeam bathymetry and seismic reflection profiles in the Llobregat River…”
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Slope Instability along the northeastern Iberian and Balearic continental margins by Lastras Membrive, Galderic, Canals Artigas, Miquel, Amblàs Novellas, David, Frigola Ferrer, Jaime Ignacio, Urgeles Esclasans, Roger, Calafat Frau, Antoni, Acosta Yepes, Juan

“…This paper gathers the available information on submarine landslides identified in the northeastern Iberian continental margin and presents new data on both…”
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The Geology of Chile: Book Review By Teresa Moreno and Wes Gibbons (eds.) Geological Society. London (United Kingdom). 414 pages, 286 figures including maps, charts and pictures; 27,5x21 cm, ISBN 978-1-86239 (hardback) and ISBN 978-1-86239-220-5 (softback) by Cabrera, Lluís, Calafat Frau, Antoni, Gimeno Torrente, Domingo, Liesa Torre-Marín, Montserrat, Proenza Fernández, Joaquín Antonio, Sàbat i Montserrat, Francesc, Sáez, Alberto, Santanach i Prat, Pere F., 1946, Fernández Turiel, José Luis, Giralt Romeu, Santiago, Pérez Estaún, Andrés

“…Earth Science books or journals assembling review papers on the geology of a country are always welcome, since they usually provide updated "states-of-the-art"…”
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