The GOLD project - Drilling in the Western Mediterranean Sea

Marina Rabineau (1) , Daniel Aslanian (2) , Karine Alain (3) , Christian Gorini (4)

1 LDO - Domaines Océaniques
2 GM - Géosciences Marines
3 LM2E - Laboratoire de microbiologie des environnements extrêmophiles
4 iSTeP - Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris

The "GOLD" IODP Project aims to recover the complete history of the Gulf of Lion (25-30 Ma) with a specific focus on Global Climate and Sea-level Changes, Extreme Events, Margin formation, Natural Resources and the Deep Biosphere using dedicated drilling Platform (MSP, Joides and Chikyu). It should be emphasized that no academic drillings dealing with pre-5million years exist in the Mediterranean Sea.

Domains: Stratigraphy; Oceanography; Applied geology; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Climatology; Global Changes; Microbiology and Parasitology

Marina Rabineau, Daniel Aslanian, Karine Alain, Christian Gorini. The GOLD project - Drilling in the Western Mediterranean Sea. 2011, pp.12. ⟨insu-00590331⟩