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The northern continental slope off the Ebro Delta has a badland topography indicating major slope erosion and mass movement of material that deposits sediment into a ponded lobe. The southern slope has a low degree of mass movement activity and slope valleys feed channel levee-complexes on a steep continental rise. The last active fan valley is V-shaped with little meandering and its thalweg merges downstream with the Valencia Valley. The older and larger inactive channel-levee complex is smoother, U-shaped, and meanders more than the active fan valley.
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Alonso, B., Kastens, K.A., Maldonado, A. et al. Morphology of the Ebro fan valleys from SeaMARC and sea beam profiles. Geo-Marine Letters 5, 141–148 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02281631
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