MEDISIS

Type Oceanographic cruise
Ship Le Nadir
Ship owner Ifremer
Dates 25/06/2002 - 15/07/2002
Chief scientist(s) MASCLE Jean

GEOSCIENCES AZUR - SITE DE VILLEFRANCHE

Observatoire Oceanologique

La Darse

BP 48

06235 VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-MER Cedex

+33 (0)4 93.76.37.43

gsa-vlfr@geoazur.unice.fr

https://geoazur.oca.eu/
DOI 10.17600/2080040
Objective

The aims of Medisis survey are to better investigate and image, along several transects, the deep geologic structures of the eastern Mediterranean sea between its African Mesozoic passive margins, to the south, and its Northern active margins. Two major domains were particularly investigated: the Mediterranean Ridge, a huge tectono-sedimentary feature which results from near collision-convergence processes between Europe and Africa, and the Nile deep sea fan, a recent, and thickly sedimentary construction, covering a segment of the former Mesozoic passive continental Margin of northern Africa. The related project is GDR Marges.

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Loncke L., Vendeville B. C., Gaullier V., Mascle J. (2010). Respective contributions of tectonic and gravity-driven processes on the structural pattern in the Eastern Nile deep-sea fan: insights from physical experiments. Basin Research, 22(5), 765-782. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00436.x


Camera Laurent, Ribodetti Alessandra, Mascle Jean (2010). Deep structures and seismic stratigraphy of the Egyptian continental margin from multichannel seismic data. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 341(1), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP341.5


Huguen Caroline, Foucher Jean-Paul, Mascle J., Ondreas Helene, Thouement M., Gontharet S., Stadnitskaia A., Pierre C., Bayon Germain, Loncke L., Boetius A., Bouloubassi I., de Lange G., Caprais Jean-Claude, Fouquet Yves, Woodside J., Dupre StephanieORCID (2009). Menes caldera, a highly active site of brine seepage in the Eastern Mediterranean sea: "In situ" observations from the NAUTINIL expedition (2003). Marine Geology, 261(1-4), 138-152. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2009.02.005 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/11089/


Loncke Lies, Gaullier Virginie, Droz Laurence, Ducassou Emmanuelle, Migeon Sebastien, Mascle Jean (2009). Multi-scale slope instabilities along the Nile deep-sea fan, Egyptian margin: A general overview. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 26(5), 633-646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.03.010


Loncke Lies, Gaullier Virginie, Mascle Jean, Vendeville Bruno, Camera Laurent (2006). The Nile deep-sea fan: An example of interacting sedimentation, salt tectonics, and inherited subsalt paleotopographic features. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 23(3), 297-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2006.01.001


References of International Seminar Communications

Camera, L., Chamot-Rooke, N., Sage, F., Mascle, J., and Medisis Scientific party, 2004.-Deep structures of the Nile continental margin as deduced from combined sesimic reflection and gravimetry data , abstract accepted for CIESM congress in Barcelona, juin 2004.

Camera, L., Sage, F, Klaeschen, D., Ribodetti, A., and Mascle, J., 2004 , New constraints on the structure of the Eastern Nile continental margin from MCS data pre-stack depth migration attempts, submitted to European Geophysical Union congress, Nice, april 2004.

Mascle J., Caméra L., Chamot-Rooke N., Costis C., Gaullier V., Loncke L., Nielsen C., Operto S., Ribodetti A., Sage F., Sallares V., Schenini L., Skharinov S., 2003. - Constraints on the deep structure of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea from new mcs seismic reflection data, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, and Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 09172-2003, European Geophysical Society, 2003.

Mascle J., Loncke L., Caméra L. and the Fanil scientific party, 2003. - An integrated study of the Nile Continental Margin (Eastern Mediterranean), OMARC, Ocean Margin Research Conference , Paris, Septembre 2003.

Mascle J., Loncke L., Caméra L. and the fanil scientific party, 2003. - Under-compacted mud and fluid seeps in the Nile deep-sea fan, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, and Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 09048-2003, European Geophysical Society, 2003.

Thesis using campaign data

Ghalya Hussni Sara (2021). Réactivation compressive du domaine crustal avant-arc de la subduction hellénique : imagerie temps et profondeur sur données sismiques grands offsets / Compressive reactivation of the hellenic subduction forearc crustal domain : time and depth imaging on long-offsets seismic data. PhD Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur.


Vitard Clément (2016). Investigation sismique du domaine avant-arc Égéen du segment Sud-Ouest de la zone de subduction Hellénique / Seismic investigation of the forearc domain of the southwestern segment of the Hellenic subduction zone. PhD Thesis, Université de Nice.


Laurent Camera : Structure profonde du bassin oriental de la Méditerranée et du cône sous marin du Nil d?après des données combinées de sismique multitrace et de gravimétrie (prévision de soutenance juin 2006).