Geodynamics of plate boundary and construction processes of high-latitude margins: northern Antarctic Peninsula
Integrated geological and geophysical studies in margins and sedimentary basins of southern Iberia.
The scientific goal of the cruise is to improve our knowledge of the geodynamic evolution of the Gibraltar Arc System (GAS) from improving the existing dataset in particular margin segments of the westernmost Mediterranean. Particularly, the Miocene to Holocene tectonic evolution of the shallow crust, as determined by its deformation pattern, tectonic partitioning and kinematics, neotectonics and active tectonics. The survey was conducted in three different crustal scenarios: 1) a relatively thinned continental crust at the Palomares and Cartagena margins; 2) an anomalous or oceanic crust at the ocean-continent boundary located at the foot of theses margins, and to the east of the Alboran Basin; and 3) a highly fractured and sismogenic continental crust at the Alboran southern margin (Morocco Margin). The survey consisted in acquiring multichannel seismic profiles and concurrent, multibeam bathymetry, and magnetometer and gravimeter records.
LASEA campain from project CGL2011-30302-C02 has the following objectives: Phase 1: Acquire bathymetric and seismic data from the gulf of Cadiz using acoustic echo sounders EM710, TOPAS and Sparker. Phase 2: Obtain sediment samples from the gulf of Cadiz and complementary bathymetric data.
Oceanographic survey collected in the framework of the following research project: ?PROCESOS MORFO-SEDIMENTARIOS Y ESTRATIGRAFIA DE ALTA RESOLUCION DE DEPOSITOS MARINOS SOMEROS EN LATITUDES MEDIAS: REGISTRO DE LA VARIABILIDAD AMBIENTAL Y APLICACIONES PARA LA GESTION COSTERA (CTM2005-04960/MAR)?. This Project is funded by the Education and Science Spanish Ministery for the period 2006-2008.The above mentioned project has two main scientific objectives: a) to determine recent environmental changes (oceanographic and sea-level influences) imprinted in shallow-water deposits previously identified in a sector of the Gulf of Cadiz shelf close to the Straits of Gibraltar; b) to apply the knowledge about sedimentary processes and architecture of shelf deposits to the coastal zone integrated management.
Multichannel seismic, collecting rocks by dredging, sediment collected by gravity corer, in addition to bathymetry and sounds in the Weddell Sea and the Sea of Scocia.
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Tectonics, structure and morphology of the Basins and Margins Alboran Sea and South Balearic
Geodynamics of the Scotia plate edge / Antarctic and Antarctic Deep Water paleoceanography. Development of ocean basins
Geodynamics and Paleoceanography of continental margins and basins: northern Antarctic Peninsula