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| Michel, Guillaume; Dupre, Stephanie; Baltzer, Agnes; Ehrhold, Axel; Imbert, Patrice; Pitel, Mathilde; Loubrieu, Benoit; Scalabrin, Carla; Lazure, Pascal; Marie, Louis; Geldof, Jean-baptiste; Deville, Eric. |
| Inactive and mostly elongated pockmarks of 100–200 m in dimension were recently discovered on the South Aquitaine Margin continental slope. They are distributed at water depths greater than 350 m in both interfluve and sediment-wave areas, and are strongly controlled by the sedimentary morphology and architecture. Water column and seafloor backscatter and sub-bottom profiler data do not exhibit present-day or past gas evidence, e.g., massive and continuous gas releases at the seabed and fossil methane-derived authigenic carbonates. It is thus proposed that the pockmarks originated from a shallow source and result from relatively recent and short-duration gas or water expulsion events. Former near-bottom currents may have contributed to the elongation of... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Pockmark; Fluid; Seabed morphology; Aquitaine slope; GIS; Currents. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00413/52491/53279.pdf |
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