In situ cone penetration tests at the active Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan: Evidence for excess fluid pressure, updoming, and possible future violent eruption

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1716-1723

  Kopf, Achim ^a   Stegmann, Sylvia ^a   Delisle, Georg ^b   Panahi, Behrouz ^c   Aliyev, Chingiz S ^c   Guliyev, Ibrahim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

Author keywords

Cone penetration testing; Methane emission; Mud volcanism; Pore pressure; Shear strength

Indexed keywords

AZERBAIJAN; CAUCASUS; COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; CONE PENETRATION TESTING; CONE RESISTANCE; CONTINUOUS EMISSION; CRATER LAKE; CRESTAL AREA; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; FLUID PRESSURES; FLUID-FILLED; IN-SITU; IN-SITU CONE PENETRATION TESTS; METHANE EMISSION; METHANE FLUXES; METHANE GAS; MUD DOMES; MUD VOLCANISM; MUD VOLCANOES; NATURAL HAZARD; OROGENIC WEDGE; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; POSSIBLE FUTURES; UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH;

DOMES; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAKES; METHANE; PORE PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SHEAR STRENGTH; VOLCANOES;

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

CONE PENETRATION TEST; EMISSION; FLUID PRESSURE; IN SITU TEST; LAVA DOME; METHANE; MUD VOLCANO; MUDSTONE; PORE PRESSURE; SHEAR STRENGTH; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; AZERBAIJAN; EURASIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 70350015252     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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