Mud volcanoes and gas vents in the Okhotsk Sea area.

Shakirov, R. B., Obzhirov, A. and Suess, Erwin (2004) Mud volcanoes and gas vents in the Okhotsk Sea area. Geo-Marine Letters, 24 (3). pp. 140-149. DOI 10.1007/s00367-004-0177-y.

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Abstract

Gas emissions from mud volcanoes on Sakhalin Island and water-column gas flares arising from cold seeps in the Okhotsk Sea appear to be related. They are likely activated by tectonic movements along the transform plate boundary separating the Okhotsk Sea Plate from the Eurasian and Amur plates. Gas vents (flares) and methane anomalies occur in the waters offshore Sakhalin Island, along with NE-SW-trending mounds and fluid escape structures on the seafloor. The intersection of the NE-striking transverse faults on land with the Central Sakhalin and Hokkaido-Sakhalin shear zones apparently determines the sites of mud volcanoes, a pattern that continues offshore where the intersection with the East Sakhalin and West Derugin shear zones determines the sites of the submarine gas vents.

Document Type: Article
Keywords: Mud volcanoes, gas vents, Okhotsk Sea, Sakhalin Island
Research affiliation: OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB2 Marine Biogeochemistry > FB2-MG Marine Geosystems
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: No
Publisher: Springer
Projects: KOMEX
Date Deposited: 09 Mar 2009 14:36
Last Modified: 24 May 2017 06:54
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/3024

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