BUSCADOR RECOLECTA

TASYO Cruise (29HE20000425) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2000, Tecto-sedimentary transport from the continental margin of the Gulf of Cadiz to the Atlantic abyssal plains . The present project focuses on the geodynamic, stratigraphic and morpho-sedimentary study of the continental margin of the Gulf of Cadiz and its relationship with adjacent abyssal areas. It is intended to determine the tecto-sedimentary transport between the platform-slope of the Gulf of Cadiz and the abyssal plains of Herradura and Sena. The area is of special importance because it is very conditioned by one of the most gigantic phenomena of submarine sedimentary transport that can be known both in the Atlantic and in other oceanic areas of the world. This is due to a substrate in the sedimentary basin characterized by an olistostromica mass that conditions a high tectonic and sedimentary instability from the Mieocene to the present day