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Margin Morphology - UTIG

Continental Margin Morphology

Many UTIG researchers are involved in investigations of the morphology of the continental shelf seafloor. With the aid of high-resolution imaging, they are able to link modern seafloor features to sedimentary structure and processes recorded in the stratigraphic record.

GEOCLUTTER

STRATAFORM

NEW JERSEY MARGIN

EEL RIVER BASIN

Jamie Austin, Craig Fulthorpe, John Goff, and Hilary Olson played a leading role in ONR’s multi-institutional STRATAFORM initiative, which was aimed at better understanding the morphology of U.S. continental margins and their processes.


GULF OF MEXICO

As oil and gas exploration has moved into deeper waters, the Gulf of Mexico has become the focus of several UTIG projects that aim to learn more about the deeper areas, as well as to understand the Gulf’s complete depositional history.

Richard Buffler, William Galloway, and Patricia Ganey-Curry are in Phase III of the GBDS Project.  This project has developed as the ultimate framework for new exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.


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