Creation of a Continental Margin: 3D Reconstruction of the Gulf of Lion Margin following Messinian Erosion

狮子湾提供了一个机会来研究大陆边缘在被地中海的墨西拿干涸剥离后的发展。重建了与公海的连接，沿着该边缘沉积了具有特征性斜坡形态的厚沉积序列。 参与者提议将大陆架和陆坡的重建作为大陆边一般如何演变的自然实验。他们计划利用数千公里现有的MCS剖面建立狮子湾地区的3D图像。他们将使用回剥技术逐层记录利润如何在3D中发展，这将使他们能够了解利润增长所涉及的过程。

The Gulf of Lions presents an opportunity to investigate the development of a continental margin after it had been stripped bare, by the Messinian desiccation of the Mediterranean. One the connection to the open sea was reestablished thick sedimentary sequences with characteristic clinoform morphology were deposited along this margin. PIs propose to use the re-establishment of the continental shelf and slope as a natural experiment for how continental margins evolve in general. They plan to build a 3D picture of the Gulf of Lion region using several thousand km of existing MCS profiles. They will use back-stripping techniques to document layer by layer how the margin developed in 3D, which will allow them to understand the processes involved in the margin growth.