SO232 SLIP: Suspected Large Igneous Province
ACRONYM
SO232 SLIP
Title
SO232 SLIP: Suspected Large Igneous Province
General information
The oceanic plateaus and basins offshore South Africa play a major role in understanding the tectonic-geodynamic evolution since Gondwana break-up and the development of the oceanic current system in the South Atlantic and the Southwest Indian Ocean. The research project SO232 SLIP aims to contribute to a better understanding of the evolution of the Mozambique Ridge and associated volcanism during the opening of the southern ocean as well as the connection between volcanic-tectonic activities of the ridge and the modifications in the ocean current systems. SO232 SLIP is a collaborative project of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and GEOMAR and conducts a geophysical-petrological-geochronological study of the southern Mozambique Ridge. The GEOMAR subproject "Petrology" focuses on sampling of the igneous structures using dredges to provide information on the age and chemistry and hence the origin of the magmatism. Geochemical investigations of the igneous rocks also will contribute to unraveling the origin of the Indian MORB (“Indian Mantle Domain”, geochemically enriched signatures compared to Atlantic and Pacific MORB) and the Dupal anomaly in oceanic basalts of the southern hemisphere and the causes of intraplate volcanism.
Start
January, 2014
End
June, 2016
Funding (total)
-
Funding (GEOMAR)
181000
Funding body / Programme
-
BMBF
/ SONNE-Ausfahrt
Coordination
Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Germany
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