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| Late-Cenozoïc evolution of the Southern Porcupine Basin, SW off Ireland: Seismic stratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of a passive periglacial margin |
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Funder identifier: P102/178W1000 (Other contract id) Period: January 2000 till December 2001 Status: Completed Thesaurus terms: Continental margins; Offshore; Physical oceanography; Seismic profiles; Side scan sonar; Stratigraphy; Underwater acoustics |
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| The main interest lies in the present and past evolution of bottom currents on the Eastern slope of the Porcupine Seabight. For this study, a multitude of tools will be used:
1) Very high-resolution single-channel sparker seismics 2) Multi-channel industrial seismics 3) Very high-resolution sidescan sonar imagery 4) Swath bathymetry as well as subbottom profiling 5) Geophysical, sedimentological, micropaleontological and isotopic analyses of giant piston cores 6)This research frames within a broad cluster of international projects. The most important of these projects are situated within the Ocean Margin Cluster of the European Commission Fifth Framework Programme: GEOMOUND, ECOMOUND and STRATAGEM. |
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