Figure 5. Model of sediment drift formation along the Antarctic continental margin (Rebesco et al.,
1997). During glacial maxima, till transported to the shelf edge slumps, forming sediment gravity
flows. Turbidity currents thus formed move down the slope to the rise, where suspended fine
sediments are entrained by west-flowing bottom currents and deposited in the drifts west of the
submarine canyons.
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