MD 163 / MOBAMASIS

Type Oceanographic cruise
Ship Marion Dufresne
Ship owner TAAF
Dates 19/09/2007 - 13/10/2007
Chief scientist(s) REICHERT Christian , ASLANIAN Daniel ORCID

BGR-FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCE

Stilleweg 2

P.O. Box 51 01 53

30655 HANNOVER

49 511 643 25 15

http://www.bgr.bund.de/
DOI 10.17600/7200110
Objective

The MD 163 / MOBAMASIS (MOZAMBIQUE BASIN-MADAGASCAR SEISMIC EXPERIMENT) cruise achieved several objectives: seismic imaging (refraction and reflection), surveying of the first ocean crust, magnetism, passive continental margins. This falls under the Sedimentary systems and structuring of margins project.

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Dennielou BernardORCID, Guambe Inacio H., Matsena Constantino P., Mugabe João A., Achimo Mussa, Jouet Gwenael (2022). Insight into contrasting patterns of sedimentation from shelf edge to base-of-slope on the Mozambique-Zambezi margin (17°30′S-20°S) during the last 40 ka. Marine Geology, 451, 106886 (23p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106886 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00789/90107/


Fierens Ruth, Droz Laurence, Jouet Gwenael, Rabineau MarinaORCID, Raisson F., Babonneau Nathalie, Robin C., Jorry StephanORCID (2022). Sedimentary evolution and effects of structural controls on the development of the Zambezi mixed turbidite-contourite system (Mozambique channel, southwest Indian Ocean) since the Oligocene. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 138, 105532 (22p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105532 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00745/85666/


Mueller Christian Olaf, Jokat Wilfried (2019). The initial Gondwana break-up: A synthesis based on new potential field data of the Africa-Antarctica Corridor. Tectonophysics, 750, 301-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.11.008


Castelino Jude A., Reichert Christian, Jokat Wilfried (2017). Response of Cenozoic turbidite system to tectonic activity and sea-level change off the Zambezi Delta. Marine Geophysical Research, 38(3), 209-226. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1007/s11001-017-9305-8 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00376/48698/


Castelino Jude A., Reichert Christian, Klingelhoefer FraukeORCID, Aslanian DanielORCID, Jokat Wilfried (2015). Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic sediment influx and morphology of the Mozambique Basin. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 66, 890-905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.07.028


Mahanjane Estevao Stefane (2014). The Davie Fracture Zone and adjacent basins in the offshore Mozambique Margin – A new insights for the hydrocarbon potential. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 57, 561-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.06.015


Mahanjane E. S., Franke D., Lutz R., Winsemann J., Ehrhardt A., Berglar K., Reichert C. (2014). Maturity and Petroleum Systems Modelling in the Offshore Zambezi Delta Depression and Angoche Basin, Northern Mozambique. Journal Of Petroleum Geology, 37(4), 329-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpg.12589


Mahanjane Estevao Stefane, Franke Dieter (2014). The Rovuma Delta deep-water fold-and-thrust belt, offshore Mozambique. Tectonophysics, 614, 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.12.017


Leinweber Volker, Klingelhoefer FraukeORCID, Neben Soenke, Reichert Christian, Aslanian DanielORCID, Matias Luis, Heyde Ingo, Schreckenberger Bernd, Jokat Wilfried (2013). The crustal structure of the Central Mozambique continental margin — Wide-angle seismic, gravity and magnetic study in the Mozambique Channel, Eastern Africa. Tectonophysics, 599, 170-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.04.015


Mahanjane Estevao Stefane (2012). A geotectonic history of the northern Mozambique Basin including the Beira High - A contribution for the understanding of its development. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 36(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.05.007


Leinweber Volker, Jokat Wilfried (2012). The Jurassic history of the Africa-Antarctica corridor - new constraints from magnetic data on the conjugate continental margins. Tectonophysics, 530-531, 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2011.11.008


References of Articles published in periodicals and magazines for the general public

Aslanian, D., Sciences Ouest n°251 - Février 2008, Là où l'océan s?est ouvert

References of International Seminar Communications

Neben, S.; Block, M.; Reichert, C.; Schreckenberger, B.; Heyde, I.; Jokat, W.; Klingelhöfer, F. ; Aslanian, D.; Moulin, M.; Ehrhardt, A. : Cruise BGR07 MOBAMASIS - Marine Geophysical Investigations offshore Central Mozambique Abstracts EGU meeting Avril 2008 (Vienna).

References of National Seminar Communications

Leinweber, V., Aslanian, D., Matias, L., Neben, S., Heyde, I., Schreckenberger, B., Klingelhoefer, F., Jokat, W., Geophysical study of the conjugate East African and East Antarctic margins. Abstracts Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft, April 2009, Kiel.

Moulin, M., Reichert, C., Aslanian, D., Jokat, W.,. Klingelhoefer, F. and the Mobamasis Team, The Basin Of Mozambique Investigated During The Mobamasis Experiment, 6ª Assembleia Luso Espanhola de Geodesia e Geofísica, Fev. 2008.

Thesis using campaign data

Fierens Ruth (2019). Le système sédimentaire du Zambèze de l'Oligocène au Quaternaire (Canal du Mozambique, Océan Indien) : architecture, sédimentation et facteurs de contrôle / The Oligocene to Quaternary Zambezi Depositional System (Mozambique Channel, Southwest Indan Ocean) : architecture, sedimentation and forcing factors. PhD Thesis, Université de Bretagne Occidentale.


Leinweber, V., Étude géophysique des marges conjuguées Est-Afrique et Est-Antarctique. Soutenu 20/07/2011.