Continental Margins - Focal points of the Earth’s resource- and risk potential

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Since 2008 the German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the Special Science Programme SPP 1375: SAMPLE - South Atlantic Margin Processes and Links with onshore Evolution. Co-ordinators of the SPP 1375 are Prof. H.-P. Bunge (LMU München), Prof J. Behrmann (IFM-GEOMAR) and Prof. M. Weber (GFZ Potsdam).

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The following projects build up the SPP 1375:  

  • Rapid plate motion variationa as a probe into plate boundary forces in the South Atlantic basin
  • Proman (Program Management and Scientific Networking)
  • Long-term evolution of the Argentine continental margin: implications for hydrocarbon generation, migration, leakage and climate feedback
  • Thermal history, exhumation, uplift, and long-term landscape evolution of the Western South Atlantic passive continental margin, Brazil
  • Transition from a sheared to a volcanic rifted margin: The crustal structure of the southern South Atlantic margin off Argentina
  • Structures and mechanisms of dyke emplacement at a volcanic rifted margin – AMS, microfabric analyses and geochronology of mafic dyke swarms from NW Namibia
  • WALVIS I: Ar/Ar Geochronology and Geochemistry of existing samples from the Walvis Ridge and Rio Grande Rise
  • Petrogenesis of gabbroic and doleritic Etendeka rocks East of Cape Fria, NW Namibia
  • Splitting continental lithosphere during early rifting in the South Atlantic with emphasis on the role of magmatism
  • Geophysical image of the continent-ocean boundary, implications on mantle dynamics and lithospheric controls on continental breakup in the South Atlantic
  • 3D lithosphere-scale modelling of the South Atlantic passive continental margins with focus on the South African and Argentine segments
  • Three-dimensional thermomechanical modelling of continental break-up in South Atlantic
  • Mineralogical and Dynamic Origin of the South African Superplume
  • Late Cretaceous to Recent post-breakup evolution of the African S-Atlantic margin: integrating onshore field studies, sequence development, offshore seismic data, numerical dating and modelling
  • The role of mantle plumes in the formation of Large Igneous Provinces: constraints from noble gases
  • Composition and melting conditions of primary mantle magmas in the Etendeka igneous province, NW Namibia, from melt inclusion and phenocryst microanalysis
  • Integrated basin analysis of the Brazilian Atlantic continental margin, sequence stratigraphy and numerical basin modelling

 


01.02.2011 | Print