PRISME 2

Type Oceanographic cruise
Ship L'Atalante
Ship owner Ifremer
Dates 14/07/2013 - 04/08/2013
Chief scientist(s) CATTANEO Antonio ORCID

GEO-OCEAN - UMR 6538

Univ. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, Univ. Bretagne Sud

Place Nicolas Copernic

29280 Plouzané

https://www.geo-ocean.fr/
DOI 10.17600/13010050
Objective

The PRISME 2 cruise objective was to study in detail the traces of large underwater landslides affecting the continental slope in three different sectors of the western Mediterranean (Ligurian margin, Pianosa ridge, gulf of Lion), to better understand the landslide deposits' nature, geometry and age, the mechanical properties of sediments in the area where collapses began (landslide scars) and finally, the possible factors which may control slides and their occurrence or recurrence times. By linking the results from the PRISME 2 cruise with those from PRISME 3, initially planned as the second part of the same cruise, these objectives will be reached. The 3 zones' boundaries are formed by the following polygons: ABCDE (Ligurian): A (43°30'N ' 7°30'E) B (43°15'N ' 7°45'E) C (43°30'N ' 8°45'E) D (44°15'N ' 9°15'E) E (44°17'N ' 8°52'E); FGHIJK (Pianosa): F (42°15'N - 9°35'E) G (42°15'N - 10°15'E) H (42°30'N - 10°15'E) I (42°30'N ' 10°00E) J (42°58'N ' 10°00E) K (42°58'N - 9°35'E); LMNO (Gulf of Lion): L (41°40'N ' 4°45'E) M (41°40'N ' 5°45'E) N (42°30'N ' 5°45'E) O (42°30'N ' 4°45'E). The related project is called PAPRICA (PAmela PRIsme2 Contourite Appraisal), in the framework of the PAMELA (PAssive Margins Exploration LAboratories) scientific cooperation agreement between TOTAL and Ifremer.

Published data

Coussin Vincent, Penaud Aurelie, Combourieu-Nebout Nathalie, Peyron Odile, Schmidt Sabine, Zaragosi Sebastien, de Vernal Anne, Babonneau Nathalie (2022). Distribution of modern dinocysts and pollen in the western Mediterranean Sea (Algerian Margin and Gulf of Lion). https://doi.org/10.17882/87317


Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Wilckens Henriette, Schwenk Tilmann, Lüdmann Thomas, Betzler Christian, Zhang Wenyan, Chen Jiayue, Hernandez-Molina F.Javier, Lefebvre Alice, Cattaneo AntonioORCID, Spiess Volkhard, Miramontes Elda (2023). Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts. Sedimentology, 70(5), 1472-1495. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13093 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00823/93490/


de Castro S., Miramontes E., Dorador J., Jouet Gwenael, Cattaneo AntonioORCID, Rodríguez-Tovar F.J., Hernández-Molina F.J. (2021). Siliciclastic and bioclastic contouritic sands: textural and geochemical characterisation. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 128, 105002 (29p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105002 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00683/79475/


Badhani ShrayORCID, Cattaneo AntonioORCID, Dennielou BernardORCID, Leroux EstelleORCID, Colin FlorentORCID, Thomas Yannick, Jouet Gwenael, Rabineau MarinaORCID, Droz Laurence (2020). Morphology of retrogressive failures in the Eastern Rhone Interfluve during the Last Glacial Maximum (Gulf of Lions, Western Mediterranean). Geomorphology, 351, 106894 (19p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106894 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00592/70396/


Miramontes Garcia Elda, Garreau PierreORCID, Caillaud Matthieu, Jouet Gwenael, Pellen Romain, Hernández-Molina F. Javier, Clare Michael A., Cattaneo AntonioORCID (2019). Contourite distribution and bottom currents in the NW Mediterranean Sea: Coupling seafloor geomorphology and hydrodynamic modelling. Geomorphology, 333, 43-60. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.02.030 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00483/59426/


Miramontes Elda, Sultan NabilORCID, Garziglia Sebastien, Jouet Gwenael, Pelleter EwanORCID, Cattaneo AntonioORCID (2018). Altered volcanic deposits as basal failure surfaces of submarine landslides. Geology, 46(7), 663-666. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1130/G40268.1 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00444/55565/


Miramontes Elda, Garziglia Sebastien, Sultan NabilORCID, Jouet Gwenael, Cattaneo AntonioORCID (2018). Morphological control of slope instability in contourites: a geotechnical approach. Landslides, 15(6), 1085-1095. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-018-0956-6 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00425/53636/


Cattaneo AntonioORCID, Miramontes Elda, Samalens Kevin, Garreau PierreORCID, Caillaud Matthieu, Marsset Bruno, Corradi Nicola, Migeon Sebastien (2017). Contourite identification along Italian margins: The case of the Portofino drift (Ligurian Sea). Marine And Petroleum Geology, 87, 137-147. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.03.026 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00378/48977/


Miramontes Garcia Elda, Cattaneo AntonioORCID, Jouet Gwenael, Thereau Estelle, Thomas Yannick, Rovere Mickael, Cauquil E., Trincardi F. (2016). The pianosa contourite depositional system (northern Tyrrhenian sea): drift morphology and plio-quaternary stratigraphic evolution. Marine Geology, 378, 20-42. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.11.004 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00292/40330/


Marsset Bruno, Menut Eric, Ker StephanORCID, Thomas Yannick, Regnault Jean-Pierre, Leon Pierre, Martinossi Henri, Artzner Laurent, Chenot Damien, Dentrecolas Stephane, Spychalski B., Mellier G., Sultan NabilORCID (2014). Deep-towed High Resolution multichannel seismic imaging. Deep-sea Research Part I-oceanographic Research Papers, 93, 83-90. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2014.07.013 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00206/31745/


Kopf A, Mascle J, Klaeschen D (2003). The Mediterranean Ridge: A mass balance across the fastest growing accretionary complex on Earth. Journal Of Geophysical Research-solid Earth, 108(B8), 2372 (31p.). https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JB000473


Huguen C, Mascle J, Chaumillon E, Woodside Jm, Benkhelil J, Kopf A, Volkonskaia A (2001). Deformational styles of the eastern Mediterranean Ridge and surroundings from combined swath mapping and seismic reflection profiling. Tectonophysics, 343(1-2), 21-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00185-8


Huguen C, Mascle J (2001). La Marge continentale libyenne, entre 23◦30 et 25◦30 de longitude est. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Serie II Fascicule A-Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes, 332(9), 553-560. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1251-8050(01)01575-0


References of Technical Reports

Gaillot Arnaud, Pierre Delphine (2014). PRISME 2 et 3 : traitement des données SMF. DIT.REM/GM/CTDI 20140321-AG03-PRISME2+3_traitementSMF.


Pierre Delphine, Gaillot Arnaud (2013). Mission PRISME2 - Traitement SMF. DIT.REM/GM/CTDI 20130802-DP01.


Thesis using campaign data

Badhani ShrayORCID (2020). Instabilités des fonds marins dans le Golfe du Lion, Méditerranée occidentale / Seafloor instabilities in the Gulf of Lions, Western Mediterranean. PhD Thesis, Université de Bretagne Occidentale.


Miramontes Garcia Elda (2016). Submarine landslides in the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea and relationship with the turbiditic and contouritic deposits : morphology, stratigraphy, geotechnics and modelling. PhD Thesis, Université de Bretagne occidentale.