Investigating Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Exchange
Project Acronym: IMMAGE | State: Full Proposal Approved
IMMAGE is an amphibious "Land-to-Sea" drilling proposal designed to recover a complete record of Atlantic-Mediterranean exchange in the Gibraltar Strait, from its Late Miocene inception to its current configuration. This will be achieved by targeting Miocene offshore sediments on either side of the Gibraltar Strait with IODP and recovering Miocene core from the two precursor connections now exposed on land with ICDP. The scientific aims of IMMAGE are to constrain quantitatively the consequences for ocean circulation and global climate of the inception of Atlantic-Mediterranean exchange; to explore the mechanisms for high amplitude environmental change in marginal marine systems and to test physical oceanographic hypotheses for extreme high-density overflow dynamics that do not exist in the world today on this scale.
Keywords: Africa, Europe, Morocco, Spain, Gibraltar, Contourites, Marine Gateway, Paleoclimate, Salt Giant
Project Management
Contact Person
Lead PIs
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CoPIs
- Nadia Barhoun – Universite Casablanca
- Guillermo Booth Rea – Universidad de Granada
- Domenico Chiarella – Universita degli Studi di Bologna
- Maria de Pilar Mata Campo – Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana
- Evelina Dmitrieva – REPSOL, Exploration Technical Services
- Damian do Couto – Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
- Hajar El Talibi – Universite Mohammed Premier
- Ana Cristina Freixo Roque – Geological Survey of Portugal
- Marcus Gutjahr – GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- Timothy Herbert – Brown University
- Francisco Javier Hernandez-Molina – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
- Frits Hilgen – University of Utrecht
- Francisco Jiminez-Espejo – Universidad de Granada
- Wout Krijgsman – University of Utrecht
- Santiago Ledesma-Mateo – Gas Natural SDG S.A.
- Sonya Legg – Princeton University
- Estefania Llave – Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana
- Mohamed Amine Manar – Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines
- Paul Meijer – University of Utrecht
- Cesar Ranero – Barcelona Center for Subsurface Imaging (Barcelona)
- Maria Isabel Reguera Garcia – Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana
- Francisco Rodriguez Tovar – Universidad de Granada
- Michael Rogerson – University of Hull
- Ait Salem – Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines
- Francisco Sierro Sanchez – Universidad de Salamanca
- Zakaria Yousfi – Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines
- Gemma Ercilla Zarraga – Instituto de Ciencias del Mar Barcelona
Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- Investigating Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Exchange (IMMAGE) (IMMAGE)
- Proposed in:
- 2018
- Current State:
- Full Proposal Approved
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Miocene
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
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- Drilled length:
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- Cored length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered, length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- n.a.
- Location
- Africa, Morocco, Europe, Spain, Morocco
- Coordinates
- 36.0000, -6.0000
- Status
- Full Proposal Approved
- Internal ID
- ICDP-2018/09 (#1987)
Project Location
Project Timeline
Full Proposal Approved
First Full Proposal Submitted
Workshop Held
22 - 24 November 2016 in Rabat, Morocco