MACAMO - MD 40
| Type | Oceanographic cruise |
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| Ship | Marion Dufresne |
| Ship owner | IPEV |
| Dates | 28/05/1984 - 01/07/1984 |
| Chief scientist(s) | MOUGENOT D. |
SIEGE DES TAAF - ILE DE LA REUNION Rue Gabriel Dejean 97410 SAINT PIERRE 33 (0)2.62.96.78.78 |
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| DOI | 10.17600/84010611 |
| Objective | Stable continental margins fall into two distinct categories: those resulting from the divergence of two plates, the best studied; and those resulting from the sliding of two plates along a transform fault, which is relatively unknown to date. The structural study of the margin in northern Mozambique allows: to observe a margin in the first stages of evolution, when the two continental lithospheres remain in contact along a transforming direction (Davie chain); to study the subsequent remobilization it has undergone during the different phases of opening of the Indian Ocean. This programme is a thematic extension of the research on sliding margins undertaken by the Continental Margin Study Group west of Spitsbergen and in the Gulf of Guinea. |
