Ocean Floor

The ocean floor is one of the most dy­namic and geo­lo­gic­ally di­verse en­vir­on­ments of the earth. Its mor­pho­logy is con­tinu­ously (re-)shaped by sed­i­ment in­put, erosion, trans­port and de­pos­ition, as well as by sub­mar­ine vol­can­ism, earth­quakes, an­thro­po­genic in­flu­ences and much more. MARUM sci­ent­ists are work­ing on a broad spec­trum of pro­cesses chan­ging the ocean floor: from Sediment dynamics and the in­flu­ence by an­thro­po­genic im­pacts as well as the Control of seafloor dynamics on morphology and benthic ecosystems to Cascading marine hazards and their precursors, and of course the pro­cess at Oceanic rifts and continental margins. MARUM sci­ent­ists tackle these chal­lenges by in­vest­ig­at­ing both the un­der­ly­ing pro­cesses as well as their in­ter­ac­tions in shap­ing and chan­ging the sea­floor from the coast to the deep-sea.