Stratigraphy, structure and evolution of the European continental margins

In the course of the last three decades fundamental marine geological research in Europe has grown to full maturity and has been thriving thanks to significant European financial support via collaborative research projects on a variety of topics, such as slope stability (e.g. COSTA, EUROMARGINS), gas hydrates (e.g. HYDRATECH, ANAXIMANDER), fluid flow (e.g. MEDIFLUX, CRIMEA), cold-water corals and deep biosphere (e.g. GEOMOUND, ECOMOUND, HERMES, HERMIONE, MiCROSYSTEMS), paleoceanography (e.g. MOCCHA), delta's (e.g. EURODELTA), source-to-sink studies (e.g. EUROSTRATAFORM), continental margin processes (e.g. OMARC, EURODOM, PROMESS), and the deep ocean floor (e.g. GEOSTAR, BIODEEP, MIDAS). Through these projects major progress was made in our understanding of fundamental processes governing the stratigraphy, structure and evolution of the European continental margins and surrounding ocean floors, including the interactions between geosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.