Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344080

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0344080

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The stratigraphic architecture of continental margins (MARGINS). The project seeks to increase our understanding of how continental margins develop. Emphasis is given to studying the controls exerted on sedimentation by sea-level change, climate cycling, ocean front location, current-deposition and tectonics, using the southwest Pacific (temperate eastern NZ) as the prime fieldwork area. Sediment being transported across continental margins passes through a number of energy fences (e.g. piedmont, shoreline, wave-base, storm-zone, shelf-edge), which together modulate sediment transport and deposition. These fences differ in their relative positions, magnitudes and effects on different margins. The research will combine onland and offshore studies, builds on data collected during ODP Leg 181, and is integrated with the international MARGINS "source to sink" program.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $235,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Other Stratigraphy (Incl. Sequence Stratigraphy) | Oceanography Not Elsewhere Classified | Geology | Sedimentology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Earth sciences

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