Active mud volcanoes on the upper slope of the western Nile deep-sea fan-first results from the P362/2 cruise of R/V Poseidon

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 169-186

  Feseker, Tomas ^a   Brown, Kevin R ^a   Blanchet, Cecile ^a   Scholz, Florian ^a   Nuzzo, Marianne ^a   Reitz, Anja ^a   Schmidt, Mark ^a   Hensen, Christian ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STAGE; CORE SEDIMENTS; DEEP SEA FAN; FLUID SOURCES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-SITU; MUD VOLCANOES; RAPID CHANGES; SEDIMENT SOURCES; THERMOGENIC ORIGIN;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HYDROCARBONS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

VOLCANOES;

ABYSSAL PLAIN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; FAN DELTA; MUD VOLCANO; SEDIMENTATION; SUBMARINE FAN;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 77952954494     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-010-0192-0     Document Type: Article

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