The members of the project are participating on the geophysical survey in Lošinj Channel /Lošinjski kanal in the Northern part of the Adriatic Sea. The Croatian Geological Survey group is: Dr. Slobodan Miko, Dr. Nikolina Ilijanić, Mr. Ozren Hasan and MSc. Dea Brunović. They hosted the colleagues from Greece, University of Patras, Laboratory of Marine Geology & Physical Oceanography, led by Professor George Papatheodoru, with associates Dr. Maria Geraga, Dr. Dimitris Christodoulou, Dr. Margarita Iatrou, MSc. Nikos Georgiou and Professor George Ferentinos.
In four day survey, from 16th to 20th April, there will be made detailed seizmic/acustic profiles of the Lošinjski kanal, using sub-bottom profiler and side scan sonar, to image sediment layers and rocks beneath the seabed, providing the sedment thickness and stratigraphy. The channel is a submerged Late Pleistocene lake, with maximum depth of 70 m. The first exciting results indicate that the total depth of the Quaternary sequences is between 35 and 40 m bsf.
Fig. 1. and 2. The research vessel “Zlatica Dva” while mounting the equipment for the geophysical survey and one of the seizmic profiles of the Lošinjski kanal, showing the stratigraphy of ~40 m of the Quaternary sediments.
LoLADRIA - Lost Lake Landscapes of the Eastern Adriatic Shelf 