Basile C., Mascle J., Sage F., Lamarche Geoffroy, Pontoise Bernard. (1996). Pre-cruise and site surveys : a synthesis of marine geological and geophysical data on the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling.Initial Reports, 159, p. 47-60.
Titre du document
Pre-cruise and site surveys : a synthesis of marine geological and geophysical data on the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin
Année de publication
1996
Type de document
Article
Auteurs
Basile C., Mascle J., Sage F., Lamarche Geoffroy, Pontoise Bernard
Source
Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling.Initial Reports, 1996,
159, p. 47-60
ODP Leg 159 is the first drilling cruise dedicated to assess the sedimentary, tectonic, and thermal processes as well as the subsidence history operating during and after continental transform margin formation, the challenge being to improve and develop geological models applied to this specific type of ocean-continent boundary. The location of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin, within an equatorial region and located between two different oceanic basins (Central and South Atlantic) of different ages, also provided paleoceanographic potential for Leg 159. The marine geological and geophysical surveys briefly presented above, and with which Leg 159 was planned, have already provided noteworthy data making this segment of transform margin a well-investigated example of this type. It is anticipated that continuous coring and logging at all selected Leg 159 sites will answer many of the questions still in discussion and open new trends of investigation. (Résumé d'auteur)
