Deep underground structure of mud volcanoes in Taman according to experimental field studies and mathematical modeling
Category: 16-2UDC 550.3+551.21 (470.62)
V.V. Ershov(1), A.L. Sobisevich(2), I.N. Puzich(2)
(1) Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
(2) Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Abstract. New results of comprehensive studies of the deep underground structure of Shugo and Karabetova mud volcanoes (Kerch-Taman mud volcanic province) are presented. According to the results of comprehensive interpretation of geophysical experimental data, isotope and hydrochemical data, and consequent mathematical modeling, the depths of mud volcanic reservoirs saturated with liquid and gaseous fluids for each of the volcanoes are estimated.
Keywords: mud volcanism, model for mud volcanic activity, geophysical profile, the Kerch-Taman mud volcanic province.
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