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Dieter Franke

Bio: Dieter Franke is an academic researcher from Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rift & Continental margin. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 105 publications receiving 3666 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed description of rift-onset and breakup unconformities is presented for the three continental margins that evolved in the Early Cretaceous, the Paleocene and the Oligocene, respectively.

426 citations

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TL;DR: The seafloor spreading history of the South China Sea has been interpreted in different ways in the past and the debate over the correct timing of the major tectonic events continues as discussed by the authors.

249 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model for rift-evolution at conjugate magma-poor margins in time and space is presented, based on the early Cenozoic South China Sea rift architecture at the distal margins.

246 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the early Cretaceous South Atlantic continental breakup and initial sea-floor spreading were accompanied by large-scale, transient volcanism emplacing voluminous extrusives, manifested in the seismic data by huge wedges of seaward dipping reflectors (SDRs).

166 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the structure of the continent-ocean transition (COT) at its southern margin, off NW Palawan between the continental blocks of Reed Bank and the islands of Palawan and Calamian.

157 citations


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01 Aug 2001
TL;DR: The study of distributed systems which bring to life the vision of ubiquitous computing systems, also known as ambient intelligence, is concentrated on in this work.
Abstract: With digital equipment becoming increasingly networked, either on wired or wireless networks, for personal and professional use alike, distributed software systems have become a crucial element in information and communications technologies. The study of these systems forms the core of the ARLES' work, which is specifically concerned with defining new system software architectures, based on the use of emerging networking technologies. In this context, we concentrate on the study of distributed systems which bring to life the vision of ubiquitous computing systems, also known as ambient intelligence.

2,774 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a digital age grid of the ocean floor with a grid node interval of 6 arc min using a self-consistent set of global isochrons and associated plate reconstruction poles was created.
Abstract: We have created a digital age grid of the ocean floor with a grid node interval of 6 arc min using a self-consistent set of global isochrons and associated plate reconstruction poles. The age at each grid node was determined by linear interpolation between adjacent isochrons in the direction of spreading. Ages for ocean floor between the oldest identified magnetic anomalies and continental crust were interpolated by estimating the ages of passive continental margin segments from geological data and published plate models. We have constructed an age grid with error estimates for each grid cell as a function of (1) the error of ocean floor ages identified from magnetic anomalies along ship tracks and the age of the corresponding grid cells in our age grid, (2) the distance of a given grid cell to the nearest magnetic anomaly identification, and (3) the gradient of the age grid: i.e., larger errors are associated with high age gradients at fracture zones or other age discontinuities. Future applications of this digital grid include studies of the thermal and elastic structure of the lithosphere, the heat loss of the Earth, ridge-push forces through time, asymmetry of spreading, and providing constraints for seismic tomography and mantle convection models.

752 citations

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TL;DR: The contourite paradigm was conceived a few decades ago, yet there remains a need to establish a sound connection between contourites, basin evolution and oceanographic processes.

600 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a global Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid (EMAG2) has been compiled from satellite, ship, and airborne magnetic measurements, both over land and the oceans, where the original shipborne and airborne data were used instead of precompiled oceanic magnetic grids.
Abstract: [1] A global Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid (EMAG2) has been compiled from satellite, ship, and airborne magnetic measurements. EMAG2 is a significant update of our previous candidate grid for the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map. The resolution has been improved from 3 arc min to 2 arc min, and the altitude has been reduced from 5 km to 4 km above the geoid. Additional grid and track line data have been included, both over land and the oceans. Wherever available, the original shipborne and airborne data were used instead of precompiled oceanic magnetic grids. Interpolation between sparse track lines in the oceans was improved by directional gridding and extrapolation, based on an oceanic crustal age model. The longest wavelengths (>330 km) were replaced with the latest CHAMP satellite magnetic field model MF6. EMAG2 is available at http://geomag.org/models/EMAG2 and for permanent archive at http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/er.cgi?s=erda.cgi?n=970.

455 citations