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Caracterización del margen continental de Cataluña y Baleares
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The continental margin of Catalonia and Balearic Islands comprises three
main types differentiated on the basis of seismic lines coupled with bottom
samples. The progressive margin is located in the studied areas at the southern
end of the Lion Gulf and in most of the Valencia GuIf. This type is characterized
by wide and smooth shelf, rather unifol1ll slope with restricted development of
submarine canyons, and tbick base-of-slope sedimen,\¡Iry units. The intermediate
type presents the most" variable morphologic feanires in the provinces of the
margin and mark(:d steplike physiography on the slope. This structural type is
representative of many Balearic sectors and locally along the Costa Brava.
Submarine canyons are best developed in tbis margin, together with highly
variable unconsolidated sediment sequence of Plio-Quaternary that covers the
acoustic basement. The abrupt type defmes the prominentslopes in the southern
Balearic sector. This margin is the steepest and is found on the slope and ona
reduced revel in (he other provinces of the margino
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SERRA RAVENTÓS, Jordi, MALDONADO, Andrés and RIBA I ARDERIU, Oriol. Caracterización del margen continental de Cataluña y Baleares. Acta Geologica Hispanica. 1977. Vol. 14, num. 494-504. ISSN 0567-7505. [consulted: 8 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/32732