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Balearic Basin
Abstract Megabeds are thick sedimentary layers extending over thousands of square kilometres in deep-sea basins and are thought to result from large slope failures triggered by major external events. Such deposits have been found in at least three areas of the Mediterranean Sea. Although their discovery dates back to the early 1980s, many questions remain concerning their initiation, source area, extent and the nature of their emplacement. One of the largest previously documented megabeds was emplaced during the Last Glacial Maximum across the Balearic Abyssal Plain, with a thickness of 8–10 m in water depths of up to 2800 m. New 3.5 kHz sub-bottom profiles and sediment cores provide greater constraints on the lateral variability of the megabed and allow it to be mapped beyond previous estimates, with a revised areal extent of 90 000–100 000 km 2 . The megabed terminations show a gradual pinchout to the west and an abrupt eastward termination against the steep Sardinia margin. The megabed presents, in seismic profiles and sediment cores, a tripartite subdivision, which most likely corresponds to the changes in flow regimes across the basin, with a central area of sandy facies and an erosional base oriented NNE–SSW; this allows renewed discussions about the sources and triggers of the megabed.
Seismic imaging of Late Miocene (Messinian) evaporites from Western Mediterranean back-arc basins
The Messinian record of Spanish onshore and offshore data (Atlantic Ocean and Western Mediterranean Sea)
Evidence for transform motion along the South Balearic margin and implications for the kinematics of opening of the Algerian basin
The study of 13 modern basin plains ranging in size from the 200-km 2 Navidad Basin up to the giant (>100,000-km 2 ) Hatteras and Sohm Abyssal Plains has revealed that these features owe their existence to large-volume turbidity currents capable of covering the entire basin floor. Such convulsive events flatten out the topographic irregularities formed by the deposition of small flows between the big events. Giant events maintain the flat plain floor. The largest event measured to date in modern basin plains is the Black Shell Turbidite of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain, which is at least 100 km 3 in volume and perhaps double that. In some instances, a single giant flow may arrive on the basin simultaneously from geographically widespread basin entry points, indicating that the initiating mechanism, probably an earthquake, was regional in scope.