water masses leaving the Straits reached the Canary Islands to the south and north Norwegian Sea.
Tomorrow Wednesday, September 29 beginning at Cadiz the second part of the oceanographic CONTOURIBER-1 on board Sarmiento de Gamboa to the researcher's participation Oceanographic Centre of Málaga IEO, Dr. Juan Thomas Garrido Vázquez.
After leaving the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean water masses come a long way both north and west and south. The northern branch runs along the Portuguese margin, surrounding the Bay of Biscay and continue north to reach the Norwegian Sea, while the southern branch reaches the Canary Islands.
The movement of these bodies of water has generated a significant influence on the submarine topography and sediments that are still known and which contain a valuable record of the evolution of our seabed.
The campaign made detailed maps of the relief by submarine sonar, will obtain images of seabed to depths of 2 and 3 miles by seismic systems and collected sediment samples. This campaign is part of CONTOURIBER project, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science and consists of three sub-projects led by the University of Vigo, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and the Geological Survey of Spain (IGME). CONTOURIBER project brings together a total of 40 researchers from various national and international companies as well.
IEO investigator, Dr. Juan Tomás Garrido Vazquez has been working with this research group for several years and currently leads the project MONTERA which studies, among other things, the relationship of the Mediterranean water masses with different seamounts present at the continental margins of southern Iberia.
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