Topographically-driven meteoric groundwater – An important geomorphic agent

Informazioni relative al progetto

MARCAN

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 677898

DOI

10.3030/677898

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 28 Luglio 2016

Data di avvio 1 Gennaio 2017

Data di completamento 31 Dicembre 2022

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Costo totale

€ 1 757 432,00

Contributo UE

€ 1 757 432,00

Coordinato da

UNIVERSITA TA MALTA
Malta

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Pubblicazioni

Peer reviewed articles (30)

Mesophotic Depth Biogenic Accumulations (“Biogenic Mounds”) Offshore the Maltese Islands, Central Mediterranean Sea

Autori: Bialik, O.M., Varzi, A.G., Duran Gallego, R., Le Bas, T., Gauci, A., Savini, A., Micallef, A.
Pubblicato in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, ISSN 2296-7745
Editore: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.803687

Groundwater erosion of coastal gullies along the Canterbury coast (New Zealand): a rapid and episodic process controlled by rainfall intensity and substrate variability

Autori: Micallef, Aaron; Marchis, Remus; Saadatkhah, Nader; Pondthai, Potpreecha; Everett, Mark E.; Avram, Anca; Timar-Gabor, Alida; Cohen, Denis; Preca Trapani, Rachel; Weymer, Bradley A.; Wernette, Phillipe
Pubblicato in: eISSN: 2196-632X, Numero 12, 2021, ISSN 2196-632X
Editore: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/esurf-9-1-2021

Testing the potential of using fine quartz for dating loess in South Island, New Zealand

Autori: A. Avram, Z. Kabacinska, A. Micallef, A. Timar-Gabor
Pubblicato in: Radiation Measurements, 2022, ISSN 1350-4487
Editore: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2022.106788

Past and future evolution of the onshore-offshore groundwater system of a carbonate archipelago: The case of the Maltese Islands, central Mediterranean Sea

Autori: Michele De Biase, Francesco Chidichimo, Aaron Micallef, Denis Cohen, Carl Gable, Thomas Zwinger
Pubblicato in: Frontiers in Water, 2023, ISSN 2624-9375
Editore: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2022.1068971

Does Retrogression Always Account for the Large Volume of Submarine Megaslides? Evidence to the Contrary From the Tampen Slide, Offshore Norway

Autori: Rachel S. Barrett; Benjamin Bellwald; Peter J. Talling; Aaron Micallef; Aaron Micallef; Felix Gross; Christian Berndt; Sverre Planke; Reidun Myklebust; Sebastian Krastel
Pubblicato in: Journal of geophysical research : solid earth, 2021, ISSN 2169-9356
Editore: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2020jb020655

Active faulting controls bedform development on a deep-water fan

Autori: Vittorio Maselli; Aaron Micallef; Alexandre Normandeau; Davide Oppo; David Iacopini; Andrew Green; Zhiyuan Ge
Pubblicato in: Geology, 2021, ISSN 1099-1034
Editore: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/g49206.1

Groundwater seepage is a key driver of theater-headed valley formation in limestone

Autori: Micallef, Aaron; Saadatkhah, Nader; Spiteri, Jurgen; Rizzo, Enzo; Capozzoli, Luigi; De Martino, Gregory; Pace, Letizia; Burrill, Christine; Gatt, Michael; Schmidt, Mark; Gupta, Shubhangi
Pubblicato in: Geology, Numero 10, 2022, ISSN 0091-7613
Editore: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/g49938.1

Electrical Resistivity Anomalies Offshore a Carbonate Coastline: Evidence for Freshened Groundwater?

Autori: Amir Haroon; Aaron Micallef; Marion Jegen; Katrin Schwalenberg; Jens Karstens; Christian Berndt; Xavier Garcia; Michel Kühn; Enzo Rizzo; Nicoletta Fusi; Chibuzo Valeria Ahaneku; Chibuzo Valeria Ahaneku; Lorenzo Petronio; Zahra Faghih; Bradley A. Weymer; Michele De Biase; Francesco Chidichimo
Pubblicato in: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL091909, 2021, ISSN 1944-8007
Editore: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl091909

Investigations on the Luminescence Properties of Quartz and Feldspars Extracted from Loess in the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand South Island

Autori: D. Brezeanu; Anca Avram; Aaron Micallef; S. Cinta Pinzaru; Alida Timar-Gabor
Pubblicato in: Geochronometria, 2021, ISSN 1733-8387
Editore: Dzial Wydawn. Politechniki Slaskiej
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4536870

The coastal transition zone is an underexplored frontier in hydrology and geoscience

Autori: Bradley A. Weymer; Mark E. Everett; Amir Haroon; Marion Jegen-Kulcsar; Aaron Micallef; Christian Berndt; Holly A. Michael; Rob L. Evans; Vincent Post
Pubblicato in: Communications Earth and Environment, Numero 2, 2022, ISSN 2662-4435
Editore: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00655-8

Multiple drivers and controls of pockmark formation across the Canterbury Margin, New Zealand

Autori: Aaron Micallef; Tanita Averes; Jasper Hoffmann; Gareth Crutchley; Joshu J. Mountjoy; Mark Person; Denis Cohen; Susanne Woelz; Sarah J. Bury; Chibuzo Valeria Ahaneku; Daniele Spatola; Neeske Luebben; Stefano Miserocchi; Sebastian Krastel; Martina Torelli; Kamaldeen. O. L. Omosanya
Pubblicato in: Basin Research, Numero 1, 2022, ISSN 1365-2117
Editore: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12663

Numerical modeling of gas hydrate recycling in complex media: Implications for gas migration through strongly anisotropic layers

Autori: A. Peiraviminaei; S. Gupta; B. Wohlmuth
Pubblicato in: JGR Solid Earth, Numero 2, 2022, ISSN 2169-9356
Editore: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10511609.1

The role of fluid seepage in the erosion of Mesozoic carbonate escarpments

Autori: Aaron Micallef; Charles K. Paull; Nader Saadatkhah; Or M. Bialik
Pubblicato in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2021, ISSN 2169-9011
Editore: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2021jf006387

Could offshore groundwater rescue coastal cities?

Autori: Christian Berndt, Aaron Micallef
Pubblicato in: Nature, Numero 574/7776, 2019, Pagina/e 36-36, ISSN 0028-0836
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-02924-7

Salt leaching by freshwater and its impact on seafloor stability: An experimental investigation

Autori: Nader Saadatkhah; Azman Kassim; Qurratu Aini Siat; Aaron Micallef
Pubblicato in: Marine Geology, Numero 5, 2023, ISSN 0025-3227
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106959

Seismic Reflection Methods in Offshore Groundwater Research

Autori: Claudia Bertoni, Johanna Lofi, Aaron Micallef, Henning Moe
Pubblicato in: Geosciences, Numero 10/8, 2020, Pagina/e 299, ISSN 2076-3263
Editore: MPDI
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10080299

Bottom current-controlled Quaternary sedimentation at the foot of the Malta Escarpment (Ionian Basin, Mediterranean)

Autori: Michele Rebesco, Angelo Camerlenghi, Vanni Munari, Renzo Mosetti, Jonathan Ford, Aaron Micallef, Lorenzo Facchin
Pubblicato in: Marine Geology, 2022, ISSN 0025-3227
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106596

Can offshore meteoric groundwater generate mechanical instabilities in passive continental margins?

Autori: Aaron Micallef, Mark Person, Shubhangi Gupta, Nader Saadatkhah, Adrien Camille, Òscar Gratacós
Pubblicato in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2023, ISSN 2169-9011
Editore: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2022jf006954

3D Characterization of a Coastal Freshwater Aquifer in SE Malta (Mediterranean Sea) by Time-Domain Electromagnetics

Autori: Potpreecha Pondthai, Mark E. Everett, Aaron Micallef, Bradley A. Weymer, Zahra Faghih, Amir Haroon, Marion Jegen
Pubblicato in: Water, Numero 12/6, 2020, Pagina/e 1566, ISSN 2073-4441
Editore: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w12061566

Ideas and perspectives: Land-ocean connectivity through groundwater

Autori: Damian Leonardo Arévalo-Martínez; Amir Haroon; Hermann Werner Bange; Ercan Erkul; Marion Jegen; Nils Moosdorf; Jens Schneider von Deimling; Christian Berndt; Michael Ernst Böttcher; Jasper Hoffmann; Volker Liebetrau; Ulf Mallast; Gudrun Massmann; Aaron Micallef; Holly A. Michael; Hendrik Paasche; Wolfgang Rabbel; Isaac Santos; Jan Scholten; Katrin Schwalenberg; Beata Szymczycha; Ariel T. Thomas
Pubblicato in: eISSN: 1726-4189, Numero 5, 2023, ISSN 1726-4189
Editore: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/bg-2022-148

Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins

Autori: Joshu J. Mountjoy, Jamie D. Howarth, Alan R. Orpin, Philip M. Barnes, David A. Bowden, Ashley A. Rowden, Alexandre C. G. Schimel, Caroline Holden, Huw J. Horgan, Scott D. Nodder, Jason R. Patton, Geoffroy Lamarche, Matthew Gerstenberger, Aaron Micallef, Arne Pallentin, Tim Kane
Pubblicato in: Science Advances, Numero 4/3, 2018, Pagina/e eaar3748, ISSN 2375-2548
Editore: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar3748

How Offshore Groundwater Shapes the Seafloor

Autori: Aaron Micallef, Joshu Mountjoy, Katrin Schwalenberg, Marion Jegen, Bradley Weymer, Susi Woelz, Peter Gerring, Neeske Luebben, Daniele Spatola, Daniel Cunarro Otero, Christof Mueller
Pubblicato in: Eos, Numero 99, 2018, ISSN 2324-9250
Editore: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2018EO090691

Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin

Autori: Aaron Micallef, Angelo Camerlenghi, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel Cunarro Otero, Marc-André Gutscher, Giovanni Barreca, Daniele Spatola, Lorenzo Facchin, Riccardo Geletti, Sebastian Krastel, Felix Gross, Morelia Urlaub
Pubblicato in: Scientific Reports, Numero 8/1, 2018, ISSN 2045-2322
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19446-3

Active degassing across the Maltese Islands (Mediterranean Sea) and implications for its neotectonics

Autori: Aaron Micallef, Daniele Spatola, Antonio Caracausi, Francesco Italiano, Giovanni Barreca, Sebastiano D'Amico, Lorenzo Petronio, Franco Coren, Lorenzo Facchin, Rita Blanos, Alessandro Pavan, Paolo Paganini, Marco Taviani
Pubblicato in: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Numero 104, 2019, Pagina/e 361-374, ISSN 0264-8172
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.03.033

Multi-Layered High Permeability Conduits Connecting Onshore and Offshore Coastal Aquifers

Autori: Bradley A. Weymer, Phillipe A. Wernette, Mark E. Everett, Potpreecha Pondthai, Marion Jegen, Aaron Micallef
Pubblicato in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020, ISSN 2296-7745
Editore: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.531293

Offshore freshened groundwater in continental margins

Autori: Aaron Micallef, Mark Person, Christian Berndt, Claudia Bertoni, Denis Cohen, Brandon Dugan, Rob Evans, Amir Haroon, Christian Hensen, Marion Jegen, Kerry Key, Henk Kooi, Volker Liebetrau, Johanna Lofi, Brian J. Mailloux, Renée Martin‐Nagle, Holly A. Michael, Thomas Mueller, Mark Schmidt, Katrin Schwalenberg, Elizabeth Trembath‐Reichert, Bradley Weymer, Yipeng Zhang, Ariel T. Thomas
Pubblicato in: Reviews of Geophysics, 2020, ISSN 8755-1209
Editore: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020rg000706

Seismic markers of the Messinian salinity crisis in the deep Ionian Basin

Autori: Angelo Camerlenghi; Anna Del Ben; Christian Hübscher; Edy Forlin; Riccardo Geletti; Giuseppe Brancatelli; Aaron Micallef; Marco Saule; Lorenzo Facchin
Pubblicato in: Basin Research, 2020, ISSN 1365-2117
Editore: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12392

Architecture and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Coralline Limestone formation, Malta — Implications for Eastern Mediterranean restriction prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Autori: Or M. Bialik; Raymond Zammit; Aaron Micallef; Aaron Micallef
Pubblicato in: The Depositional Record, 2021, ISSN 2055-4877
Editore: Wiley
DOI: 10.31223/x52302

The Impact of Predicted Climate Change on Groundwater Resources in a Mediterranean Archipelago: A Modelling Study of the Maltese Islands

Autori: Michele De Biase; Francesco Chidichimo; Mario Maiolo; Aaron Micallef
Pubblicato in: Water, 2021, ISSN 2073-4441
Editore: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w13213046

3D characterisation and quantification of an offshore freshened groundwater system in the Canterbury Bight

Autori: Micallef, Aaron; Person, Mark; Haroon, Amir; Weymer, Bradley A.; Jegen, Marion; Schwalenberg, Katrin; Faghih, Zahra; Duan, Shuangmin; Cohen, Denis; Mountjoy, Joshu J.; Woelz, Susanne; Gable, Carl W.; Averes, Tanita; Kumar Tiwari, Ashwani
Pubblicato in: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2020), Numero 15, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14770-7

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

An 1888 volcanic collapse becomes a benchmark for tsunami models

Autori: Aaron Micallef; Sebastian F. L. Watt; Christian Berndt; Morelia Urlaub; Sascha Brune; Ingo Klaucke; Christoph Böttner; Jens Karstens; Judith Elger
Pubblicato in: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Numero 3, 2017, ISSN 0096-3941
Editore: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2017eo083743

Book chapters (1)

A consistent global approach for the morphometric characterization of subaqueous landslides

Autori: Michael A. Clare; Jason D. Chaytor; Oliver Dabson; Davide Gamboa; Aggeliki Georgiopoulou; Harry Eady; James E. Hunt; Christopher A.-L. Jackson; Oded Katz; Sebastian Krastel; Ricardo León; Aaron Micallef; Jasper Moernaut; Roberto Moriconi; Lorena Moscardelli; Christof Mueller; Alexandre Normandeau; Marco Patacci; Michael Steventon; Morelia Urlaub; David Völker; Lesli J. Wood; Zane R. Jobe
Pubblicato in: In: Subaqueous Mass Movements and their Consequences: Assessing Geohazards, Environmental Implications and Economic Significance of Subaqueous Landslides. , ed. by Lintern, D. G. Special Publications Geological Society London, 477 . Geological Society of London, London, pp. 455-477., 2018, ISSN 2041-4927
Editore: The Geological Society
DOI: 10.1144/sp477.15

Other (4)

Cruise Report RV Hercules, Valletta-Valletta, 01.07.2018, MARCAN Project – ROV survey

Autori: Micallef, Aaron
Pubblicato in: UNSPECIFIED, Malta, 5 pp., Numero 2, 2019
Editore: University of Malta

Voyage Report RV Tangaroa Voyage TAN1703, 5 April – 1 May 2017

Autori: Mountjoy, Joshu; Micallef, Aaron; Jegen, Marion; Woelz, Susi; Cunarres Otero, Daniel; Eton, Nick; Gerring, Peter; Hart, Alan; Luebben, Neeske; Mueller, Christof; Quinn, Will; Schwalenberg, Katrin; Spatola, Daniele; Weymer, Bradley
Pubblicato in: Numero 5, 2017, Pagina/e 149
Editore: NIWA

Cruise Report RV Hercules [MARCAN Malta 2018], Valletta-Valletta, 1.-10.10.2018, MARCAN Project

Autori: Micallef, Aaron; Berndt, Christian; Berndt, Janine; Jegen, Marion; Schwalenberg, Katrin; Wollatz-Vogt, Martin; Haroon, Amir; Garzia, Xavier; Faghih, Zahra; Spatola , Daniele; Worzewski, Tamara; Zerbst, Johannes
Pubblicato in: 2019, Pagina/e 37
Editore: University of Malta

Global database of offshore freshened groundwater records

Autori: Aaron Micallef
Pubblicato in: 2021
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4247833