Objective
In today's interglacial setting of the North Atlantic European margin, transport across the shelf, gravitational down-slope transport, along-slope transport by currents, and the
production of biogenic material probably are the dominant
processes which control the modern morphology, slope
stability, sediment distribution, and shallow structure of the ocean margin.
Sediment distribution and redistribution probably cluster in two time periods: tens of thousand of years (glacial advances and retreats in accordance with low and high stands of sea
level) and days to months (seasonal productivity changes,
river discharge). One of the environmental consequences of
this short time scale is that the suspension of particles in the water, sediment deposition on the sea floor and, bottom
morphology have the potential for rapid changes. How fast and to what extent they change will be the objective of this
study.
The specific objectives of this project are:
1) Determination of ocean margin sediment distribution
pathways, sedimentary facies and facies geometry based on
sea floor morphology and subbottom imagery.
2) Determination of ocean margin vent chronology for the key processes and magnitudes of material fluxes, in short and
long term events with pulsed or steady state supply
rates.
3) Determination of past hydrographic conditions on the
ocean margin in the context of sediment fluxes from
studies of benthic and planktonic communities,
foraminiferal stable oxygen, and carbon isotopes in order
to shed light on the along-slope transport by currents.
The expected achievements of the project are:
1) Understanding the sediment dynamics and fluxes, including mass wasting, along the North Atlantic European margin,
which will lead to box models defining the flux patterns
for glaciated and nonglaciated margins through
glacial-interglacial cycles.
2) Understanding the key roles of the margins in regulating the carbon cycle and the sediment transport to the deep
sea. The natural magnitudes and pathways of material
fluxes will be deciphered to assess the possible
consequences of man's impact on the ocean floor.
3) Monitoring sediment slope instabilities based on
deployment of short (days) and long term (weeks) sensor
instrumentation packages.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geology sedimentology
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics geometry
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24148 Kiel
Germany
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