1300-m-high rising bubbles from mud volcanoes at 2080 m in the Black Sea: Hydroacoustic characteristics and temporal variability

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-15

  Greinert, Jens ^a,e   Artemov, Yuriy ^b   Egorov, Viktor ^b   De Batist, Marc ^c   McGinnis, Daniel ^d  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Bubble dissolution modeling; Bubble seepage; Hydroacoustic plume flare; Mud volcanoes; Sorokin trough; Timely variability

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE DISSOLUTION MODELING; BUBBLE SEEPAGE; FLARE; HYDROACOUSTIC PLUME; MUD VOLCANOES; TIMELY VARIABILITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; DATA PROCESSING; DISSOLUTION; GAS HYDRATES; GEOCHEMISTRY; SEEPAGE; THERMAL PLUMES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; VOLCANOES;

GEOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; DEEP WATER; MUD VOLCANO; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA;

DASHEEN MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 33645533099     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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