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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2019-07-17
    Description: The cruise leg MSM09/3 was conducted as a cooperative project between the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Resources (BGR), the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and Dalhousie University. A geophysical survey covered areas of Baffin Bay and Davis Strait between Greenland and the Canadian Baffin Island. A component of the IPY 2007/08 Lead Project Plate Tectonics and Polar Gateways in the Earth System (PLATES & GATES), this project DAVIS GATE is aimed to develop a tectonic and sedimentary reconstruction of the opening process of this oceanic gateway. Baffin Bay and Davis Strait play an important role in the shallow water exchange from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean. The plate-tectonic evolution as well as the magmatic history of this region has been sparsely known and required a careful geophysical investigation in order to construct a set of gridded detailed paleo-topographic maps for a complete geodynamic reconstruction of this gateway. With a set of three seismic refraction/wide-angle reflection profiles, using ocean-bottom seismometers on 62 stations, as well as multi-channel reflection seismic recordings with a 3000-m long streamer, data were acquired from the sedimentary cover to the deep crust and even from parts of the uppermost mantle. Additional seismic data supplement these profiles and provide insights into the structures of the basement and dominant fault zones such as the Ungava fault system. A parallel running magnetic survey aimed to resolve the temporal evolution of the oceanic crust of Baffin Bay. The extension and subsidence of the continental and transitional crust in the Davis Strait and the evolution of oceanic crust in the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay could be investigated with dataset to which continuously recorded gravity anomaly data and sub-bottom profiler data also contribute. This dataset provides the basis of geometrical and physical properties of the crust required for a realistic geodynamic model which will describe the break-up and the ocean basin evolution between Greenland and Canada in terms of detailed paleo-topography.
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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  • 2
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    In:  EPIC33P Arctic Conference and Exhibition of the AAPG, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2009, Moscow.
    Publication Date: 2019-07-17
    Description: Baffin Bay is the northwest extension of the Labrador Sea spreading system. The transition zone between these two areas is characterized by the sinistral Ungava transform-fault system across Davis Strait. The crustal type within Baffin Bay is considered to be oceanic based on a few refraction seismic experiments of older vintage. However, the velocity-depth profiles obtained from these experiments also indicate deviations from normal oceanic crust. A refraction profile in northern Baffin Bay indicates that spreading there was amagmatic and that serpentinized mantle is encountered beneath the sedimentary sequence. In addition, no magnetic anomalies related to seafloor spreading could be detected in Baffin Bay so far. This leaves a relative uncertainty about the geodynamic evolution of the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay region. For this reason, a geophysical study was carried out onboard the research vessel Maria S. Merian in 2008, collecting wide-angle reflection/refraction seismic data, supplemented by coincident and additional deep reflection seismic profiles, potential field measurement, swath bathymetry and high-resolution sediment profiling (Parasound). The refraction seismic data set comprises three lines running across the centre part of Davis Strait and southern Baffin Bay extending from Greenland to Baffin Island. The seismic source was an airgun array with a total volume of 7006 cubic inches and the shots were recorded by up to 25 ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) deployed along each line. Initial velocity models will be presented for line AWI-20080600 extending from the Sisimiut Basin off Greenland across the Hellefisk well, farther towards the NW and parallel to the assumed extinct spreading axis (based on gravity data) up to the Baffin Island continental margin some 60 km to the south of ODP site 645. The record sections indicate considerable lateral variations of the crustal structure and character along the line.
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2019-07-17
    Description: Während des Merian-Fahrtabschnitts MSM09/3 wurden Ende 2008 in einer Kooperation zwischen dem Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), der Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), dem Geologischen Dienst von Dänemark und Grönland (GEUS) und der Dalhousie University geophysikalische Untersuchungen in der Baffinbucht und Davisstraße zwischen Grönland und dem kanadischen Baffininsel durchgeführt. Als Teilvorhaben des IPY-2007/08-Kernprojekts Plate Tectonics and Polar Gateways in the Earth System (PLATES & GATES) hat das Projekt DAVIS GATE das Ziel, eine tektonische und sedimentäre Rekonstruktion des Öffnungsprozesses dieser Meeresstraße zu entwickeln. Die Baffinbucht und Davisstraße spielen eine wichtige Rolle für den Flachwasseraustausch zwischen dem arktischen und dem atlantischen Ozean. Die plattentektonische Entwicklung sowie die magmatischen Ereignisse im Laufe dieser Entwicklung sind bisher kaum bekannt und erforderten eine eindringliche geophysikalische Untersuchung, um akkurate paläobathymetrische und paläogeographische Datensätze für eine vollständige geodynamische Rekonstruktion dieses Gateway zu erstellen. Entlang von drei refraktions/weitwinkelseismischen Profilen unter Nutzung von Ozeanbodenseismometern auf insgesamt 62 Stationen sowie dem Einsatz der Mehrkanal-Reflexionsseismik mit einem 3000 m langen Streamer sind Daten von der sedimentären Bedeckung bis in die tiefe Kruste und teilweise vom obersten Mantel gewonnen worden. Weitere seismische Profildaten ergänzen diese Messungen und lassen Einblicke in die Strukturen des Grundgebirges sowie der dominanten Verwerfungszonen, z.B. der Ungava-Störung, zu. Eine parallel angelegte Magnetfeldvermessung ist auf die Auflösung der zeitlichen Entwicklung der ozeanischen Kruste der Baffinbucht ausgerichtet worden. Ausdünnung und Absenkung der kontinentalen Kruste und Übergangskruste in der Davisstraße und die Entwicklung der ozeanischen Kruste der Baffinbucht konnten mit diesen geophysikalischen Daten, zu der auch kontinuierlich aufgezeichnete Schwerefeld- und Sedimentechographiedaten gehören, untersucht werden. Diese Daten liefern die Informationen über die geometrischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften der Kruste und ihrer Sedimentbedeckung, die für ein realistisches tektonisches, geodynamisches und sedimentäres Modell notwendig sind, das den kontinentalen Abbruchs und der Entwicklung des Ozeanbeckens zwischen Grönland und Kanada paläo-topographisch im Detail beschreibt.
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2020-02-12
    Keywords: 550 - Earth sciences
    Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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