Menes caldera, a highly active site of brine seepage in the Eastern Mediterranean sea: "In situ" observations from the NAUTINIL expedition (2003)

Marine Geology

Volumn 261, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 138-152

  Huguen, C ^a,b   Foucher, J P ^b   Mascle, J ^c   Ondreas H ^b   Thouement, M ^b   Gontharet, S ^d   Stadnitskaia, A ^e   Pierre, C ^d   Bayon, G ^b   Loncke, L ^f   Boetius, A ^g   Bouloubassi, I ^d   de Lange, G ^h   Caprais, J C ^b   Fouquet, Y ^b   Woodside, J ⁱ   Dupre S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

brine seep; Mediterranean Sea; mud volcano; Nile Deep Sea Fan

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; DEEP SEA FAN; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ESCAPE PROCESS; GROWTH FAULT; HIGH ACTIVITY; IN-SITU; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINIAN; MICROBIAL MATS; MUD VOLCANO; MUD VOLCANOES; NILE DEEP SEA FAN; SAMPLING RESULTS; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENT LAYERS; SOURCE LEVEL; STRONG CONTRAST; SURFACE DISTURBANCES; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAKES; SEEPAGE; VOLCANOES;

BRINES;

BRINE; MESSINIAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUD VOLCANO; SEAFLOOR; SEEPAGE; SUBMARINE FAN;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

GORGONACEA;

EID: 64749097276     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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