OTHER PROGRAMMES - TOPOMED project
Programme: European Science Foundation
Project Title: Plate re-organization in the Western Mediterranean: Lithospheric causes and topographic consequences
Acronym: TopoMed
Duration: 2009-2011
Total Budget : € 30.000 + in kind
Web site: www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/running-programmes/topo-europe/the-crps/topomed.html
Summary: The motion between Africa and Europe in the western Mediterranean region has been taken up by subduction. Over the last 30 million years the location of the subduction zone has migrated from present-day southern France and eastern Iberia to the south-southeast towards North Africa and present-day Italy, with sideward expansions to form the Gibraltar and Calabria arcs. This process is now coming to an end. TopoMed investigates the intriguing processes accompanying these last stages and the possibility that a new subduction zone is being created along the North African margin. The results of this project are important for assessing the future geohazards potential of the region.
Contact person in ISMAR: a.polonia@bo.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
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Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht - Netherlands
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Dipartimento Scienze Geologiche, Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Università di Roma Tre - Italy
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Departamento de Geofísica y Tectónica, Institut Earth Sciences 'J. Almera' – CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones, Científicas (CSIC)- Spain
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School of Cosmic Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies - Ireland
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Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, IFM-GEOMAR - Germany
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Université Montpellier II - France
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Department of Marine Geology /Departamento de Geologia Marinha, INETI National Institute for Engineering, Technology and Innovation - Portugal
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Géoazur - France
