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Abstract. Two major landsliding events have been identified west of the island of E1 Hierro: The E1 Golfo debris avalanche and the Canary debris flow. These landslides were identified from swath bathymetry, seismic reflection, and TOpographic PArametric Sonar (TOPAS) data obtained in December 1994 during a cruise on board the Spanish R/V Hesperides. The E1 Golfo debris avalanche originated subaerially on the western flank of the island of E1 Hierro and has an associated 150 km 3 rock debris deposit on the base of slope. The Canary debris flow, which dislocated some 400 km 3 of sediment, resulted from a different failure originated between 3200 and 3700 m depth at the base of slope of the island of E1 Hierro. According to the studied data set, its source area seems to have been covered by the E1 Golfo debris avalanche deposit. The triggering of the E1 Golfo debris avalanche (between 136 and 21 ka) is related to tensional stresses on the rift zones of the island. These rift zones control the emplacement and morphology of the landslide scar. In the Canary Islands, a relation between landslide ages and island ages can be established, indicating a link between subsidence history, age of shield phases, and giant landslides.

International audienceThe study of more than 500 single- and multi- channel seismic records enabled the generation of a detailed palaeo-bathymetric map of the Messinian surface over most of the Alboran Basin, Western Mediterranean. This regional surface is characterized by several erosional features (channels, terraces and canyons) and topographic highs (structural, volcanic and diapiric in origin). The most prominent feature is the incised Zanclean Channel crossing the entire basin, its entrenchment having been associated with the opening of the Strait of Gibraltar and subsequent inflow of Atlantic waters. The incision depth of the channel is variable, suggesting local variations in the erosive capacity of the Atlantic inflow, conditioned mainly by the regional basin topography and the local presence of topographic highs. Adjacent to this channel along the Spanish and Moroccan margins, and near the Strait of Gibraltar, several submarine terraces developed at different depths suggest a pulsed flooding of the Alboran Basin. There could have been two major inflow phases of Atlantic water, one shortly before and another during the Zanclean flooding, the latter accompanied by periods of relative sea-level stillstands that enabled terrace development. Alternatively, these features were all generated during the main flooding evident and subsequent pulsed infilling of the basin

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We provide a compelling evidence of the involvement of in the development of HCM. Most of the variants were associated with mild forms of HCM and a reduced penetrance, with few affected in the families to confirm the segregation. Our work, together with others who found variants among patients with dilated and restrictive cardiomyopathies, pointed to this gene as an important cause of structural cardiomyopathies.

The Alboran Sea constitutes a Neogene-Quaternary basin of the Betic-Rif Cordillera, which has been deformed since the Late Miocene during the collision between

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