Harmonised WFS Download service for Maltese Agglomeration Maltese Zone and PAHs Zone According to the requirements of Directives 2008/50/EC and 2004/107/EC with respect to the minimum number of sampling points and the assessment regimes, the data set consists of two zones in the Maltese territory, the Air Monitoring Agglomeration and the Air Quality Monitoring Zone in which all main pollutants are being monitored. A third zone covering the monitoring of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) is also included in the data set.

ODEMAR AUV Abyss (GEOMAR) + shipboard Pourquoi Pas? multibeam bathymetry - 13deg20minN Oceanic Core Complex, Mid Atlantic Ridge Microbathymetry acquired with AUV REMOS 6000 with a SeaBat RESON 7125 multibeam system. Bathymetry data gridded at 2 m (GMT grdfile) - one grid for 13deg20'N Oceanic Core Complex, and one grid for 13deg30'N Oceanic Core Complex - DM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: Title: ODM_OCC1320_AUV2.grd - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: Command: grdmath ODM_OCC1320_AUV2.grd ODM_OCC1320_SHI2.grd AND = ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: Remark:  - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: Gridline node registration used [Cartesian grid] - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: Grid file format: nf = GMT netCDF format (32-bit float), COARDS, CF-1.5 - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: x_min: -44.97115 x_max: -44.86795 x_inc: 1.7947826087e-05 name: x nx: 5751 - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: y_min: 13.27915 y_max: 13.34155 y_inc: 1.79361885599e-05 name: y ny: 3480 - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: z_min: -3924.5378418 z_max: -1905.49023438 name: z - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: scale_factor: 1 add_offset: 0 - ODM_OCC1320_AUV_SHI.grd: format: classic - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: Command: grdmath ODM_OCC1330_AUV2.grd ODM_OCC1330_SHI2.grd AND = ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: Remark:  - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: Gridline node registration used [Cartesian grid] - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: Grid file format: nf = GMT netCDF format (32-bit float), COARDS, CF-1.5 - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: x_min: -45.00965 x_max: -44.88125 x_inc: 1.79454926625e-05 name: x nx: 7156 - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: y_min: 13.48665 y_max: 13.52225 y_inc: 1.79254783484e-05 name: y ny: 1987 - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: z_min: -3244.60083008 z_max: -2087.49829102 name: z - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: scale_factor: 1 add_offset: 0 - ODM_OCC1330_AUV_SHI.grd: format: classic  

Six large grids were obtained by merging multibeam bathymetric data from several international cruises along the Southwest Indian Ridge from the Gallieni Transform Fault (54°E) to the Rodrigues Triple Junction (70°E). The spatial resolution is about 150 m. This dataset was used in several scientific papers.

Coincident wide-angle and multi-channel seismic data acquired within the scope of the PAMELA Moz3-5 project allow to reconsider the formation mechanism of East-African margins offshore southern Mozambique. This study most specifically focuses on the sedimentary and deep crustal architecture of the Limpopo margin (LM) that fringes the eastern edge of the Mozambique’s Coastal Plain (MCP) and its offshore southern prolongation the North Natal Valley (NNV). It relies primarily on the MZ3 profile that runs obliquely from the northeastern NNV towards the Mozambique basin (MB) with additional inputs from a tectono-stratigraphy analysis of industrial onshore-offshore seismic lines and nearby or crossing velocity models from companion studies. Over its entire N-S extension the LM appears segmented in (1) a western domain that shows the progressive eastward crustal thinning and termination of the MCP/NNV continental crust and its overlying pre-Neocomien volcano-sedimentary basement; and (2) a central corridor of anomalous crust bounded to the east by the Mozambique fracture zone (MFZ) and the oceanic crust of the MB. A prominent basement high marks the boundary between these two domains. Its development was most probably controlled by a steep and deeply rooted fault, i.e. the Limpopo fault. We infer that strike-slip or slightly trans-tensional rifting occurred along the LM and was accommodated along this Limpopo fault. At depth we propose that ductile shearing was responsible for the thinning of the continental crust and an oceanward flow of lower crustal material. This process was accompanied by intense magmatism that extruded to form the volcanic basement and gave to the corridor its peculiar structure and mixed nature. The whole region remained at a relative high level during the rifting period and a shallow marine environment dominated the pre-Neocomien period during the early phase of continent-ocean interaction. It is only some times after break-up in the MB and the initiation of the MFZ that decoupling occurred between the MCP/NNV and the corridor allowing for the latter to subside and being covered by deep marine sediments. A scenario for the early evolution and formation of the LM is proposed taking into account both recent kinematic and geological constraints. It implies that no or little changes in extensional direction occurred between the intra-continental rifting and subsequent phase of continent-ocean interaction.

The SeaExplorer glider Sea028 was deployed from the research vessel R/V Lance on the 15 September 2017 at 79.5°N, 8.6°E, on the western slope of Svalbard. The glider was recovered on 23 September 2017 at 80.62°N, 13.83°E.The glider was equipped with a GPCTD (Glider Payload Conductivity Temperature Depth from SeaBird), a dissolved oxygen sensor (Sea Bird SBE43F), and an optical sensor measuring Chlorophyll a (470/695 nm), Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM, 370/460 nm), and the total particle concentration or backscatter (backscattering at 700 nm) (EcoPuck from Wetlabs). The dataset is composed of the data corrected from the thermal lag and the sensor lag, despiked and interpolated every 1m. The profiles are separated.

Pre-Quaternary - Lithology. This web map service shows the geological units of the seafloor originated earlier than 2,588 Ma from now (pre-Quaternary). International Geological Map of Europe and Adjacent Areas (Asch, 2005). The scale varies between 25,000 and 5 000 000.The data were compiled by BGR from the EMODnet geology partner organisations in the EMODnet Geology project between 2009 and 2021

The Gulf of Lion is located in the north-western part of the western Mediterranean basin, between Cap Creus (Pyrenean chain) in the south-west (Spanish border) and Cap Sicié (near Toulon) in the north-east. It is characterised by a wide crescent-shaped continental shelf, 200 km long. The continental shelf reaches a maximum width of 70 km off Cap d'Agde and narrows towards the east and west as it approaches the Provencal and Pyrenean-Catalan margins. It extends between 0 and 120 to 180 m deep and has an average inclination of 0.5° (reaching up to 5° at the deltaic slopes). Numerous canyons notch the edge of the platform. The river Rhône is the main source of terrigenous inflows from the Gulf of Lion, up to about 90% (Bourrin et al., 2006), and the Rhône prodelta is an area of significant accumulation of fluvial solid inflows. The current morphology of the Gulf of Lion is strongly linked to current river flows, but also to the legacy of past environmental conditions from the last low sea level 20,000 years ago. In 2012, Ifremer had planned to produce a map of the seabed substrate in this sector based on a compilation of acoustic and sedimentary data. Indeed, the Gulf of Lion has been the subject of oceanographic studies and campaigns for many years. An inventory of the campaigns at sea had been carried out thanks to the SISMER (Scientific Information Systems for the Sea) community databases and Infoterre internet portal managed by the BRGM (the French Geological Survey). These databases had enabled the referencing of laboratories involved campaigns and samples collection in the Gulf of Lion since 1991: - Ifremer, - Shom - University of Perpignan Via Domitia (Cefrem), - Aix-Marseille University (CEREGE ; MIO Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology), - CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) - Sorbonne University, - IRSN (Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety), - the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) (previously Marine Protected Areas Agency), - the Conseil départmental de l’Hérault in the framework of the European projects Beachmed, - the Rhone-Mediterranean-Corsica Water Agency. Partnership agreements for the provision of samples and data had been signed with these research laboratories or local authorities. If the production of a map had not been successful, a total of 2 110 samples (see xls-sheet1 file) had been recorded in the Gulf of Lion. The sampling tools used were diverse and the techniques used to analyse the samples also varied from one campaign to another. To validate the results of existing analyses, we compared the samples preparation and analysis protocols. When we had no information on these protocols, the granulometric analysis was redone when the sample still existed, or the result was compared with the valid analysis of a geographically close sample. In the absence of these information, the analyses were rejected. The analyses provided by IRSN (150 samples) and CEREGE (321 samples) were acquired using a sample preparation and analysis protocol similar to that adopted for our study and were validated. Out of 144 samples taken by Ifremer, the analyses were redone in order to obtain homogeneity with the sample preparation and analysis protocol of CEREGE and IRSN.  Data from the University of Perpignan, resulting from the work of Jean-Claude Aloisi (between 1970 and 1986) which led to the first sediment distribution map of the Gulf of Lion dating from 1986, were analysed by sieving at 40 µm, determining the pelite/ sand limit at this size. Other classifications (Folk, ISO 13 320, Uden and Wentworth, ...) determine a pelite/sand limit at 63µm. It is therefore difficult to compare these data without recalibrating all the data of the 40µm laser granulometers. In the end, in order to guarantee an intercomparison of the analyses, only 1659 samples were validated after harmonisation and standardisation and all the data from the so-called "Aloisi" campaign had to be discarded (see xls-sheet2 file). The composition of the surficial sedimentary cover (of 10 cm thick; which corresponds to the capacity of penetration into the sediments of the acoustic waves emitted by the multibeam echosounders) of the Gulf of Lion shelf is relatively heterogeneous. It is strongly linked to current river inputs, but also to inherited environmental conditions from the last low sea level 20,000 years ago. At present, coarse river inflows feed the sandy coastline near the mouths, while fine inflows are transported by currents and waves over the entire platform. Different sedimentary facies appear from the coast towards the slope, parallel to the shoreline: - The inner shelf is subject to the action of swell and storms (Guizien, 2009) that cause sediment to resuspend. Richly sandy outside of the areas influenced by rivers, this area is relatively poor in clay (from 2 to 16%); clay deposits cannot be made under these conditions. It runs along the coastline, up to 30 m. It gets thinner, until it disappears, opposite the mouth of the Rhône (Gulf of Fos) in its eastern part, and opposite Cap Creus in its western part. - The median shelf, richer in clay (from 16 to 26%) located between 30 and 100 m depth on average, is known as the "median mudflat". The slope break, observed between 40 and 50 m, corresponds to the transition zone between the silto-pelitic deposits and the offshore sediments (clay phase). The particle diameter gradient is quite marked, depending on the bathymetry: 50 to 80 µm between 30 and 50 m and 10 to 15 µm from the 50 m isobath. This tendency is rather marked near the mouths of rivers, particularly the Petit Rhône, the Orb and the Hérault. - The outer shelf (located at the limit between the continental shelf and the slope) presents a sandy to sandy-muddy mixture (60% sand with a median diameter of between 80 and 100 µm and up to 500 µm). These so-called "relict" sands are derived from coastal deposits dated of Ante-Holocene age, when the continental shelf was nearly emerging. At the mouth of the Grand Rhône, the most important source of particles in the Gulf of Lion, the internal plateau does not have the same appearance, as it is the site of significant sedimentation concentrated in the form of a prodelta. At the level of this prodelta, the distribution of sediments shows a significant granulometric gradient near the mouth, with a concentration of coarse sands (>450µm) at the top (mouth bar), followed by a rapid predominance of fine sediments from the 20 m isobath, which in the area corresponds to the depth of closure of the swells. The predominance of the fine fraction occurs much faster than on the rest of the plateau. The average slope of the prodeltaic zone has been evaluated at 5° and the 100 m isobath is about ten kilometres from the mouth of the Rhône, compared with more than 50 km for most of the French Mediterranean coast of the Gulf of Lion. The Rhone's fluvial inflows are also subject to a transport dynamic towards the west and south-west, which leads to a circulation of particles over the entire continental shelf of the Gulf of Lion and their potential transport to deeper area through the heads of submarine canyons (Durrieu de Madron et al., 1990). The hydro-sedimentary functioning of the Gulf of Lion is thus characterised as follows: (i) a forced sedimentation of fine particles in the prodeltas, (ii) an advective transfer of the fine mineral from the continental sources and prodeltas to the sediments of the circalittoral mudflat, and (iii) the export of homogeneous material from the continental shelf, through the outfalls of the south-western shelf. Within this particulate dynamics, the prodelta plays an important role. By its characteristics as an area of decantation and regulation of continent/sea exchanges, the prodelta is apparented to the estuarine turbidity maximum of the macrotidal seas. Finally, as the surface sediments analysed in the Gulf of Lion are mainly composed of fine sediments, the authors believe that the simplified Flemming classification best suited to this type of environment and should be preferred for mapping the distribution of sedimentary facies in the study area.   References : Guizien (2009) - Spatial variability of wave conditions in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean sea). Life and Env. 59 (3-4):1-10. Durrieu de Madron et al. (1990) - Hydrographic structure and nepheloid spatial distribution in the Gulf of Lions continental margin.Continental Shelf Research 10(9-11):915-929. DOI: 10.1016/0278-4343(90)90067-V

Pre-Quaternary -age This web map service shows the chronostratigraphic age of geological units of the seafloor originated earlier than 2,588 Ma from now (pre-Quaternary). International Geological Map of Europe and Adjacent Areas (Asch, 2005). The scale varies between 25,000 and 5 000 000. The data were compiled by BGR from the EMODnet geology partner organisations in the EMODnet Geology project phases I, II and III between 2009 and 2019. Pre-Quaternary -lithology This web map service shows the rock type (lithology) of geological units of the seafloor originated earlier than 2,588 Ma from now (pre-Quaternary). International Geological Map of Europe and Adjacent Areas (Asch, 2005). The scale varies between 25 000 and 5 000 000. The data were compiled by BGR from the EMODnet geology partner organisations in the EMODnet Geology project phases I, II and III between 2009 and 2019. The scale varies between 25 000 and 5 000 000.

Pialassa Baiona is a temperate coastal lagoon connected with the Northwestern Adriatic Sea (44° 280 N and 44°310 E). Sediment cores and surface sediments were collected in two habitats within Pialassa Baiona: a) a salt marsh habitat characterized by the presence of saltmarsh vegetation, and b) a human impacted habitat close to anthropogenic source inputs. Cores were sampled by inserting one cylindrical Plexiglas hand corer (5-cm diameter, 50 cm long) into the sediment to a depth of 20-25 cm, and surface sediment samples (0–5 cm) were collected with a stainless-steel grab sampler. The cores were extruded in the field, sectioned into 1‐2 cm intervals, and analyzed for total organic carbon (OC), total nitrogen (TN), carbon isotope ratio (δ13C) and dry bulk density (upper 20 – 25 cm) and analyzed for organic carbon (OC), total nitrogen (TN), carbon isotope ratio (δ13C) and dry bulk density. Organic carbon (OC), total nitrogen (TN), and carbon isotopes (δ13C = [(13C/12C)sample/(13C/12C)standard − 1] × 1,000) were measured in sediment cores and surface sediments using a using a FINNIGAN Delta Plus XP mass spectrometer directly coupled to Thermo Fisher FLASH 2000 CHNS Elemental Analyzer. OC and TN content was expressed as the weight percentage of dried sediment, and carbon isotope results were reported in the standard delta notation with respect to the Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite. A ‘three-end member’ mixing model was used to estimate the relative contribution of the different organic matter (OM) sources: marine phytoplankton (FM), riverine-estuarine phytoplankton (FRE), and C3 saltmarsh plant material (FSM): δ13Csample = δ13CM x FM + δ13CFE x FFE + δ13CSM x FSM C/Nsample = C/NM x FM + C/NFE x FFE + C/NSM x FSM 1 = FM + FRE + FSM where FM, FRE and FSM are the relative contributions of marine phytoplankton, riverine-estuarine phytoplankton, and saltmarsh plant material, respectively. δ13CM (-18.97‰) and C/NM (4.95), and δ13CRE (-30.70‰,) and C/NRE (6.63) represent the end member POC signature recorded during distinct marine and estuarine phytoplankton blooms in the coastal lagoon (Guerra et al., 2013).The C3 saltmarsh plant end-member was selected on the basis of typical δ13CSM (-20.2‰) and C/NSM (15.35) values for Juncus spp. (Gebrehiwet et al., 2008; Hughes and Sherr, 1983; J. I. Kelleway et al., 2017; Kemp et al., 2012, 2010; Lamb et al., 2006). References Gebrehiwet, T., Koretsky, C.M., Krishnamurthy, R. V., 2008. Influence of Spartina and Juncus on saltmarsh sediments. III. Organic geochemistry. Chem. Geol. 255, 114–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.06.015 Guerra, R., Pistocchi, R., Vanucci, S., 2013. Dynamics and sources of organic carbon in suspended particulate matter and sediments in Pialassa Baiona lagoon (NW Adriatic Sea, Italy). Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 135, 24–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.06.022 Kelleway, J.I., Saintilan, N., Macreadie, P.I., Baldock, J.A., Ralph, P.J., 2017. Sediment and carbon deposition vary among vegetation assemblages in a coastal salt marsh. Biogeosciences 14, 3763–3779. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3763-2017 Kemp, A.C., Vane, C.H., Horton, B.P., Culver, S.J., 2010. Stable carbon isotopes as potential sea-level indicators in salt marshes, North Carolina, USA. Holocene 20, 623–636. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683609354302 Kemp, A.C., Vane, C.H., Horton, B.P., Engelhart, S.E., Nikitina, D., 2012. Application of stable carbon isotopes for reconstructing salt-marsh floral zones and relative sea level, New Jersey, USA. J. Quat. Sci. 27, 404–414. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1561