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MARM2009:

MARINE GEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT BENEATH THE SEA OF MARMARA





EC ESONET MARMARA DEMO MISSION,
R/V URANIA, 2009-09-23, 2009-10-12, CRUISE REPORT






Gasperini Luca, Geli Luis, Favali Paolo,
Çagatay Namik, Görür  Naci


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Many of the designations used by the manufacturers and sellers to promote their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designation appear in the Report and ISMAR-CNR was aware of a trademark claim the designations have been printed in all caps. In addition, we have reported some of them in the Production Notes below in this page and in the ACRONYM table thereinafter. Nothing in this document is meant to imply any endorsement or recommendation, positive or negative, concerning any systems or programs mentioned herein. The data presented hereafter is the property of CNR and of the Joint Research Program. Unauthorized use of the data would be considered unfair. Many of the systems and programs used to generate data are 'free' because either they are either public domain or the licences are roughly equivalent to the GNU Public License. Some programs are either commercial or have more restrictive licenses and may require payment. Where known, programs and systems that are not `free' are acknowledged.

ISMAR-CNR Cataloging-In-Publication data: ISMAR Bologna TECHNICAL REPORT
Marm2009: marine geological study Of The North Anatolian Fault beneath The Sea Of Marmara. Ec Esonet Marmara Demo Mission, R/V Urania, Cruise Report. by Gasperini L., Geli L., Favali P., Çagatay  N., Görür  N., Bortoluzzi G., Del Bianco F., Kuruoglu E., Romano S., Etiope G., Innocenzi L., Marinaro G., Approioul R., Le Piver D., Pelleau P., Roudaut M., Acar D., Akarsu E., Akkok R., Biltekin D., Can A., Elbeck S., Ozmaral A., Ozeren S., Sancar E., Ulgen U., Cefalogli L, Veditti V..

Includes bibliographical reference and index.
1. tectonics 2. active faults 3. paleoseismology 4. seismology 5. Sea of Marmara

Abstract - A marine geological cruise, MARMARA2009, was carried out in the frame of MARM-ESONET, a demo mission of the EC funded ESONET Network of Excellence (European Seafloor Observatory Network). Main objective of the project was the attempting to assess and mitigate seismic hazards in the region close to Istanbul through geological/geophysical surveys carried out in the Sea of Marmara along the submerged track of the North Anatolian Fault and the deployment of seafloor observatories. During MARMARA2009 we collected multibeam bathymetry, side-scan sonar imagery and chirp sub-bottom data, together with carefully positioned core samples. A submarine station of the GEOSTAR family (SN-4), 10 OBS and 5 piezometers were deployed on bottom, for recording periods up to 1 year. Although selected prior of the cruise, the SN4-observatory site has been surveyed before deployment with geophysical imaging techniques and direct groundthruting with a deep towed system, the MEDUSA, that provided oceanographic data (CTD), methane content in the water column and visual inspection through a high-resolution video camera.

Sommario - Vengono presentati le metodologie e l'insieme dei risultati ottenuti durante la campagna MARM2009 di rilievi geofisici, geologici e oceanografici nel Mar di Marmara. E' stata utilizzata la nave da ricerca R/V Urania  del CNR,

Reproduced by ISMAR-CNR from camera-ready proofs supplied by the authors.
Available in the HTML and PDF formats. Available also in other formats, upon request.
Hereafter a link to verbatim copy of this document (LATEX).

Copyright ©  2009 by ISMAR-CNR - Via Gobetti 101 40129 Bologna, Italy.


Production Notes - The document was edited with standard text editors, typeset with L.Lamport's LATEX, translated to PostScript with dvips and printed with an A4 laser printer. The full production was done on a Linux box with GNU-GPL software. Converted to HTML by N.Drakos's LATEX2HTML and to PDF by Alladin Ghostscripts's ps2pdf. Most of the maps included were produced by Wessel and Smith's GMT package. Some drawings were produced by xfig (www.xfig.org). Non PostScript images were converted by John Bradley's xv or other public-domain packages, among them convert.

ACRONYMS


Table 1: Acronyms of Organizations, Manufacturers and Products
ACRONYM DESCRIPTION URL-email
ESONET European Seas Observatory NETwork www.esonet-noe.org/about_esonet
ESONET-NOE ESONET Network of Excellence www.esonet-noe.org
CNR Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche www.cnr.it
ISMAR Istituto di Scienze Marine www.bo.ismar.cnr.it
ISTI Ist.Scienza e Informazione www.isti.cnr.it
IFREMER Institute Franc.Exploit. Mer www.ifremer.fr
INGV Istituto naz. geofisica e Vulcanologia www.ingv.it
ITU Istanbul  Technical University www.itu.edu.tr
EMCOL Eastern Mediterranean Center for Oceanography and Limnology www.mines.itu.edu.tr/emcol/
MTA Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Mudurlugu www.mta.gov.tr
COMU Cannakale Onsekiz Mart Universitesi www.comu.edu.tr
SHODB Seyir, Hidrografi ve Osinografi Dairesi Baskanligi www.shodb.gov.tr
KOERI Kandilli Obs.Earthquake Res.Institute www.koeri.boun.edu.tr
SEG Soc. of Exploration Geophysicists www.seg.org
XTF Extended Triton Format www.tritonelics.com
UNESCO United Nations Scient. and cultural org. www.unesco.org
IOC Intergov. Oceanogr. Comm. of UNESCO ioc.unesco.org
IHO Int. Hydrographic Organization www.iho.org
GPS-DGPS-RTK Global Positioning System samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov
DTM Digital Terrain Model en.wikipedia.org
SRTM Shuttle Radar Topogr.Mission www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm
OBS Ocean Bottom Seismometer woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/obs
MBES MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER SYSTEM
SBP Sub Bottom Profiling
PSU Practical Salinity Scale ioc.unesco.org
XBT Expendable BathyTermograph www.sippican.com
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
UTC Universal Time Coordinated
WGS84 World Geodetic System 1984
NMEA National Marine Electronics Association www.nmea.org
SO.PRO.MAR. Societa' Promozione lavori Marittimi Fiumicino (Italy)
TECNOMARE ENI Tecnomare www.tecnomare.it
SBE Sea Bird Electronics www.seabird.com
BENTHOS Teledyne Benthos www.benthos.com
SIS Sea Floor Inf. System www.kongsberg.com
KONGSBERG Kongsberg Maritime www.kongsberg.com
SERCEL Sercel www.sercel.com
COMM-TECH Communication Technology www.comm-tec.com
NEPTUNE Simrad MBES Software www.kongsberg-simrad.com
MB-SYSTEM MB-SYSTEM www.ldgo.columbia.edu/MB-System
GMT Generic Mapping Tool gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt


HOW TO READ THIS REPORT

Section 1 gives the introductory and background information, including some technological and scientific issues of the organization and execution of tasks, whereas section 2 summarizes the cruise operations. Section 3 provides the technical aspects that were involved in the data acquisition and processing. Sections 4 and following discuss the initial results, the on-going data processing and usage, and give concluding remarks. Some data processing procedures that were used in the production of this report along with additional technical details and data are presented in the Appendix.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people contributed to the success of the research cruise (MARM09 R/V Urania). We are particularly indebted to the Captain Emanuele Gentile, the officers and crew members of R/V Urania  for their professionalism and efforts in assuring the success of the cruise. Turkish SHOD is warmly acknowledged for support and encouragement. The project was co-funded by Italian CNR and EU's ESONET.




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