EDMERP Details

General

Abstract: The EGLACOM project is an Italian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY). The main objective of EGLACOM is the geophysical and stratigraphic high-resolution study of an ice stream dominated marine depositional system of the Arctic margin in order to reconstruct the margin evolution locally from the Pliocene to the recent-most deglaciation, and to define the sedimentary architecture and seafloor morphology as it changed through time since the onset of glacial conditions. The target study area is the southern margin of Svalbard, and in particular the glacial sedimentary system fed by the ice stream once occupying the Storfjiorden glacial trough in the northern Barents Sea. Additional objectives are: 1) Study of oceanographic processes connected to the Polar front and hydrologic characterization of Storfjorden dense water plumes by mean of integrated seismic oceanography; 2) Study of the organic carbon utilization, degradation and transformation processes along the water column in order to estimate the efficiency of biological pumps in the sequestration and export of CO2; 3) Detailed analysis of sound velocity and of the variation of the wavelet shape along a MCS profile close to the area of the geophysical investigation carried out within the EU HYDRATECH project. 4) Geological characterization of fluid flow systems in the area.
Project website: http://www2.ogs.trieste.it/eglacom2008/

Coordinator: OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Geophysics
Contact name: Rebesco Michele
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E-mail: sdn-userdesk@seadatanet.org
Other Partners: OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Geophysics; University of Tromsø; Barcelona University(UB)