Seismic stratigraphic and sedimentologic studies of clastic continental margins in high and low latitudes with the following themes:

• Global environmental and paleoclimate change

1. History of sea-level change and ice sheet growth, distribution and decay during the Cenozoic.
2. High-resolution sedimentologic and stratigraphic studies for Late Quaternary
   paleoclimatic change at time scales ranging from hundreds to thousands of
   years.
3. Sedimentary processes and facies in the fluvial-marine and glacial-marine environments from continental shelf to abyssal plain: paleoenvironmental, paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic significance.

• Geohazards

1. Slope processes and stability, including the study of the origin and evolution of
   submarine canyons and associated base-of-slope depositional systems.
2. Paleoseismicity record in Holocene sediments.

• Resource Assesment

1. Origin and evolution of submarine canyons and associated base-of-slope turbidite systems.
2. Contourite systems.

Last Updated: 23/10/06