English name: Renard Centre of Marine Geology
Thesaurus terms (17) : ; Acoustics; Bathymetry; Continental margins; Deep sea reefs; Drilling; Gas hydrates; Geology; Geophysics; Geophysics; Marine geology; Seafloor mapping; Sediment dynamics; Sediment mechanics/dynamics; Sediment transport; Seismic exploration; Seismic reflection
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Krijgslaan 281 (S8)
9000 Gent
Belgium
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Tel.: +32-(0)9-264 45 94
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Type: Scientific
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1 Director: Head of the department 2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years. 3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
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The Renard Centre of Marine Geology (RCMG), founded in 1986, performs research in the field of marine and lacustrine geology. The group acquired international recognition by studying clay tectonics of the North Sea (1991) and by the discovery of cold-water coral mounds ('Belgica mounds') in the Porcupine Seabight (Ireland) in 1997, which were drilled into during the IODP Expedition 307 in 2005. RCMG carries out research in numerous seas (Black Sea, Atlantic margin, Antarctic margin, Mediterranean Sea, etc.), participates in several international research projects and collaborates with renowned foreign marine research groups such as Ifremer, NOC Southampton, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (Marum) Bremen and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ).
The current marine research topics of RCMG are:
- geological processes of passive continental margins (palaeoceanography with an emphasis on sedimentation or erosive processes, slope stability studies, etc.);
- methane hydrates (occurrences and stabilisation conditions), cold seeps and mud volcanos (processes of seepage, methane fluxes and budgets);
- cold-water coral mounds: the study of environmental forcing on deep-water coral habitats and mounds, with respect to deep-water circulation;
- mapping of marine habitats: integrated method of marine mapping - multibeam, side-scan sonar imaging and acoustic characterisation of the seabed. The development of habitat models based on geophysical and hydrographical data;
- applied marine research: sediment and morphodynamics, sustainable management of natural resources, marine geohazards (submarine landslides) and palaeoseismology (palaeotsunamis) and marine geoarchaeology.
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 De Clercq, M.; Missiaen, T.; Wallinga, J.; Zurita Hurtado, O.; Versendaal, A.; Mathys, M.; De Batist, M. (2018). A well-preserved Eemian incised-valley fill in the southern North Sea Basin, Belgian Continental Shelf - Coastal Plain: Implications for northwest European landscape evolution. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms 43(9): 1913-1942. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.4365, more- Verhegge, J.; Saey, T.; Van Meirvenne, M.; Missiaen, T.; Crombé, P. (2017). Reconstructing Early Neolithic paleogeography: EMI-based subsurface modeling and chronological modeling of Holocene Peat below the Lower Scheldt floodplain in NW Belgium. Geoarchaeology 32(2): 159-176. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21581, more
- Verhegge, J.; Missiaen, T.; Crombé, P. (2016). Exploring integrated geophysics and geotechnics as a paleolandscape reconstruction tool: archaeological prospection of (prehistoric) sites buried deeply below the Scheldt Polders (NW Belgium). Archaeological Prospection 23(2): 125-145. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/arp.1533, more
- Missiaen, T.; Verhegge, J.; Heirman, K.; Crombé, P. (2015). Potential of cone penetrating testing for mapping deeply buried palaeolandscapes in the context of archaeological surveys in polder areas. J. Archaeol. Sci. 55: 174-187. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.003, more
- Verhegge, J.; Missiaen, T.; Van Strydonck, M.; Crombé, P. (2014). Chronology of wetland hydrological dynamics and the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition along the Lower Scheldt: a Bayesian approach. Radiocarbon 56(2): 883-898. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/56.17499, more
- Missiaen, T.; Slob, E.; Donselaar, M.E. (2009). Shallow geophysics applied in a tidal flat area. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 9: 03491, more
- Missiaen, T.; Slob, E.; Donselaar, M.E. (2008). Comparing different shallow geophysical methods in a tidal estuary, Verdronken Land van Saeftinge, Western Scheldt, the Netherlands. Geol. Mijnb. 87(2): 151-164, more
- Deronde, B.; Houthuys, R.; Debruyn, W.; Fransaer, D.; Van Lancker, V.; Henriet, J.-P. (2006). Use of airborne hyperspectral data and laserscan data to study beach morphodynamics along the Belgian coast. J. Coast. Res. 22(5): 1108-1117. http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/04-0264.1, more
- Le Bot, S.; Van Lancker, V.; Deleu, S.; De Batist, M.; Henriet, J.P.; Haegeman, W. (2005). Geological characteristics and geotechnical properties of Eocene and Quaternary deposits on the Belgian Continental Shelf: synthesis in the context of offshore wind farming. Geol. Mijnb. 84(2): 147-160, more
- Missiaen, T.; Heirman, K.; Jongepier, I.; Gelorini, V.; Crombé, P. (2016). Holocene landscape evolution of the Waasland Scheldt polders in relation to human occupation and exploitation, in: Baele, J.-M. et al. Proceedings of the 5th International Geologica Belgica Congress: 26–29 January 2016 – Mons, Belgium. pp. 265, more
- Missiaen, T.; Heirman, K.; Verhegge, J. (2016). Cone Penetrating Testing to map deeply buried palaeolandscapes for geo-archaeological prospection of polder areas, in: Baele, J.-M. et al. Proceedings of the 5th International Geologica Belgica Congress: 26–29 January 2016 – Mons, Belgium. pp. 266, more
- Mathys, M. (2009). De Quartaire geologische evolutie van het Belgisch Continentaal Plat, zuidelijke Noordzee = The Quaternary geological evolution of the Belgian Continental Shelf, southern North Sea. PhD Thesis. Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Wetenschappen: Gent. xxiv, 382, annexes pp., more
- Veys, K. (2008). Natural versus Anthropogenically-induced sedimentation, North of the Vlakte van de Raan (Belgian part of the North Sea). MSc Thesis. Universiteit Gent: Gent. 29, annex. pp., more
- Deronde, B. (2007). The sediment dynamics along the Belgian shoreline, studied with airborne imaging spectroscopy and LIDAR. PhD Thesis. Universiteit Gent: Gent. 204 pp., more
- Van Lancker, V.; QUEST4D Project Team (2007). QUantification of Erosion/Sedimentation patterns to Trace the natural versus anthropogenic sediment dynamics - QUEST4D, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 2 March 2007: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 39: pp. 63, more
- Du Four, I.; Schelfaut, K.; Van Lancker, V.; Van Dijk, T.; Paap, B.; Van Heteren, S. (2006). Geologie en sedimentologie van het Westerscheldemondingsgebied [PRESENTATIE]. RCMG/TNO - Bouw en Ondergrond: Gent. 28 slides pp., more
- Du Four, I.; Schelfaut, K.; Vanheteren, S.; Van Dijk, T.; Van Lancker, V.R.M. (2006). Geologie en sedimentologie van het Westerscheldemondingsgebied, in: Coosen, J. et al. (Ed.) Studiedag: De Vlakte van de Raan van onder het stof gehaald, Oostende, 13 oktober 2006. VLIZ Special Publication, 35: pp. 16-29, more
- Missiaen, T.; Slob, E.; Versteeg, W.; Donselaar, M.E. (2006). Comparing different shallow geophysical methods in a tidal flat area (Verdronken Land van Saeftinge, Westerschelde estuary), in: Near Surface 2006 - 12th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 4-6 September 2006, Helsinki, Finland. pp. 1-4, more
- Speybroeck, J.; Bonte, D.; Courtens, W.; Gheskiere, T.; Grootaert, P.; Maelfait, J.-P.; Mathys, M.; Provoost, S.; Sabbe, K.; Stienen, E.; Van Lancker, V.; Vincx, M.; Degraer, S. (2004). Studie over de impact van zandsuppleties op het ecosysteem: eindrapport. Afdeling Waterwegen Kust/Instituut voor Natuurbehoud/KBIN/Universiteit Gent: Belgium. 201 pp., more
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