Marine Geology: Mud Volcanism and Fluid Escape Structures
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Geological Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 370
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mud volcanism and fluid escape structures; methane-derived authigenic carbonates; gas hydrates; petrophysical properties; XRF; marine geochemistry
Interests: mud volcanism; gas hydrates; shale and salt diapirim; submarine geomorphology; tectonic
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mud volcanism and fluid escape processes are widespread and fundamental to knowledge regarding the evolution and architecture of continental margins and sedimentary basins. The increasing resolution of surface and subsurface data has yielded many new observations on soft sediment deformation, sand injection, shale diapirism, mud volcanism, pockmarks, gassy sediments, gas and fluids migration, gas hydrates and cold seepage. New geochemical, morphometric and geophysical aspects of this phenomena are therefore emerging, allowing the emergence of new interpretations, new criteria and conclusions regarding the processes involved in these structures, their specific mechanisms, the tectonic and sedimentological controls and their significance to the basin’s evolution. The main goal of this Special Issue is to promote the rapid publication of open-access articles including case studies and overview papers on the multiple aspects and mechanisms of sediment mobilization in the subsurface, their control processes and significance. Novel techniques, methodologies and their case-study applications in this research theme are highly encouraged.
Dr. Vitor Hugo Magalhaes
Dr. M. Carmen Fernandez Puga
Dr. Luís Menezes Pinheiro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Mud volcanism
- Pockmarks
- Gas hydrates
- Authigenic carbonates
- Cold seeps
- Fluids migration
- Marine sediments’ gas content
- Methane geochemistry
- Habitats related to cold seeps
- Climate change
