| General info | |
| Project title | The French margins project |
| Project acronym | Actions Marges |
| Begin date | 2008-01-01 |
| End date | 2011-12-31 |
| Description | |
| Abstract | The "Actions Marges" promotes research activities and collaborations between researchers working on rifted margins within the French community. Two major scientific questions guide the research of the program:
1) How do tectonic, magmatic and hydrothermal processes interact during continental rifting and breakup and how are they recorded in the syn-to post-rift sedimentary record of rifted margins
2) How and when do sediments form, how do they travel and how, when and where are they finally deposited (source to think) within rifted margins
Finding answers to these questions is critical in order to understand, interpret and predict geological processes that are of societal, economic and scientific importance such as distribution of mineral and hydrocarbon resources, earthquakes and predictions of climate and environmental changes. |
| Coordinator | |
| Coordinating organisation | Geo-Ocean Laboratory, UMR 6538
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| Country of Coordinator | France |
| Contact name | RABINEAU Marina |
| Contact organisation | Geo-Ocean Laboratory, UMR 6538
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| Phone | 02 98 49 87 28 |
| Email | mrabinea@univ-brest.fr |
| Project partners | |
| Other partners | CNRS, National Institute of Sciences of the Universe
French Geological Survey (BRGM)
French Petroleum Institute New Energies (Rueil-Malmaison)
Ifremer Head Office
Total SA
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| Edmerp metadata | |
| Edmerp id | 11816 |
| Collating centre | Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
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| Latest update | 2012-01-17 |
