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PANGAEA - Data from profiles across Mediterranean sedimentary systems (PROMESS)
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This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
PROMESS 1 is the first attempt to realise scientific drilling on continental shelves and slopes in the Mediterranean Sea. It is designed for sampling long sections (50-300 m) and realise in situ measurements of shelf and upper slope sedimentary sequences deposited during the last 500 kyr, at 50-300 m water depth. It will provide clues on sea-level changes, slope stability, canyon history and climate variability in physiographic settings with high sedimentation (glacial and interglacial prodeltas) and exceptional preservation of depositional sequences.
Through PANGAEA, absolute and relative abundance data on planktic and benthic foraminifera in hole PRAD1-2 have been made publicly available.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Plankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Continental shelf, Continental slope, Drilling, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Adriatic Sea
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 14,7704; MinLat: 42,6763 - MaxLong: 14,7704; MaxLat: 42,6763 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: 14,7704; MinLat: 42,6763 - MaxLong: 14,7704; MaxLat: 42,6763 [WGS84]
MED, Adriatic Sea [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
2004
Contributors
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), more, data creator, data owner, data creator
Related datasets
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PANGAEA: Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2011-01-05
Metadatarecord created: 2010-12-09
Information last updated: 2025-03-26