South Atlantic Margin Processes and Links with onshore Evolution

SPP SAMPLE

The South Atlantic and its conjugate rifted margins is a key site to study the whole spectrum of phenomena related to continental breakup and passive margin formation. It is an ideal natural laboratory on which to focus research. The newly funded (SPP) 1375 will establish a coordinated research program on passive margin processes by the German geoscience community. While focused on the South Atlantic research within the SPP will be process-oriented and the programme wlll maintain a global perspective through comparative studies and exchange with other key regions, most notably the Central and North Atlantic.

Projects:

ELCONA (Magnetotellurics)
LISP-WAL (Seismics)
WALPASS (Seismology)