About the High Resolution Marine Geophysics
We have over 30 years of experience of collecting high resolution geophysical data for research projects as diverse as small object detection (including forensic work), wreck based surveys, Quaternary natural and archaeological landscape studies, active tectonics, large scale sedimentological and structural analysis, and site investigation for offshore wind farms.
High resolution marine geophysics equipment at Southampton includes a number of devices at a range of frequencies to image the seafloor and the shallow sub-seafloor (~100 m to 1 km). We also have the capability to process and interpret this wide range of data through commercial software and a dedicated computing facility.
Data have been acquired in many different settings in lakes, nearshore and offshore, including:
- the Solent and English Channel (shipwreck surveys, paleo river studies)
- the Corinth Rift, Greece (active continental rift faulting and sedimentation)
- Windermere in the Lake District (study of glacial and post-glacial sedimentation and landforms)
- the Indus Fan (submarine fan sedimentation and monsoon climate history)
- Norway (estimation of physical properties of submarine slope failure)
- North Sea (testing detectability of gas escapes from future Carbon Capture and Storage sites)
