The main goals of the project SO231-PAGE4 were an improved understanding of Gondwana break-up and to analyze timing, structures and kinematics of ancient to modern Extension along the East African continental margin. During the cruise SO231 from 20th February 2014 (Durban) to 29th March 2014 (Durban), a total of 4300 km of geophysical profiles has been acquired. The processed (migrated) profiles are available in SEG-Y Format.
From 15th September to 26th October 2007 BGR together with the German Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, the French Institutes from Brest Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) and Institut Polaire Français Paul-Emile Victor (the French Polar Institute, IPEV) and the Portuguese Institute Laboratório de Tectonofísica e Tectónica Experimental (LATTEX) conducted a marine geophysical research cruise on the French research vessel R/V MARION DUFRESNE. The cruise BGR07 MoBaMaSis consisted of two legs MD163 off Central Mozambique and MD164 off Southern Mozambique. The main research objective was to contribute to a better understanding of the initial breakup and the early opening of the Eastern Gondwana.