Monsoon control on channel avulsions in the Late Quaternary Congo Fan

The mechanisms governing the development of deep-sea fans is a matter of debate and their understanding at Milankovitch and millenial time-scales is challenged by complex architectures and the lack of material suitable for establishing reliable chronostratigraphies. Based on a detailed investigation of the emplacement of channel-levee-lobe systems and their successive bifurcations and seaward-landward migrations (Picot et al., 2016), we present for the last 210 ka a detailed chronostratigraphic framework of the migration pattern based mainly on radiocarcarbon dating of channels and lobes abandonment or initiation.