Marine Geosciences

Marine Materials in France (Siliceous aggregates and limestones substances)

• Mandate and actions of Ifremer
• General presentation
• The maërl (text in progress)
• Current statutory frame
• Exploitation on the French marine domain
• Economic situation
• Coastal stability:
  • Effects of the exploitation of marine materials
  • Project for methodological framework (F. Cayocca and B. du Gardin) - European Marine Sand and Gravel Group conference – EMSAGG – February 2003, Delft (The Netherlands) – PDF file (195 ko)
  • Numerical simulation of the impact of a sandpit on the shore stability, following Migniot and Viguier’s experiments (1979) (B. du Gardin) - VIII^èmes Journées Nationales du Génie Côtier-Génie Civil, September 2004, Compiègne (France) – PDF file (210 ko)
• Effect of marine mining on shore stability
• Becoming of fine particles (text in progress)
• Experimental sandpit, the “CNEXO sandpit” of the Bay of Seine (France) (text in progress)
• Advised protocol for a state of reference (initial and creation studies follow-up)
• Interactions with other maritime activities (text in progress)
• Extraction techniques(text in progress)