[HTML][HTML] 50th anniversary review of the Mediterranean desiccation hypothesis

WBF Ryan - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2023 - Springer
The first deep-sea drilling expedition in the Mediterranean chanced upon unanticipated
discoveries when recovering deeply buried sediments of Late Miocene age that had once …

Diversity and distribution of cold-seep fauna associated with different geological and environmental settings at mud volcanoes and pockmarks of the Nile Deep-Sea …

B Ritt, C Pierre, O Gauthier, F Wenzhöfer, A Boetius… - Marine Biology, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The Nile Deep-Sea Fan (NDSF) is located on the passive continental margin off
Egypt and is characterized by the occurrence of active fluid seepage such as brine lakes …

Sinuous deep-water channels: Genesis, geometry and architecture

RB Wynn, BT Cronin, J Peakall - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2007 - Elsevier
Sinuous deep-water channels display a wide range of geometries and internal architectures.
Most modern examples have been documented from large passive-margin fans, supplied by …

The Nile deep-sea fan: an example of interacting sedimentation, salt tectonics, and inherited subsalt paleotopographic features

L Loncke, V Gaullier, J Mascle, B Vendeville… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2006 - Elsevier
Structural analysis of the Nile deep-sea fan (NDSF) indicates that post-Miocene deformation
is largely controlled by down-slope movement above a Messinian salt layer. In contrast to …

Structure and drivers of cold seep ecosystems

JP FoUCHER, GK WESTBRooK, A Boetius… - Oceanography, 2009 - JSTOR
Submarine hydrocarbon seeps are geologically driven" hotspots" of increased biological
activity on the seabed. As part of the HERMES project, several sites of natural hydrocarbon …

Bathymetry of the Levant basin: interaction of salt-tectonics and surficial mass movements

Z Gvirtzman, M Reshef, O Buch-Leviatan… - Marine Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
A new high resolution bathymetric map of the Levant Basin between Israel and the
Eratosthenes Seamount reveals previously undetected folds, faults and channels. The map …

The detection of deep seafloor pockmarks, gas chimneys, and associated features with seafloor seeps using seismic attributes in the West offshore Nile Delta, Egypt

A Ismail, HF Ewida, MG Al-Ibiary, S Nazeri… - Exploration …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) concession is one of the abundant natural gas
resources in the world characterised by the presence of several active gas chimneys conduit …

Nature and origin of diagenetic carbonate crusts and concretions from mud volcanoes and pockmarks of the Nile deep-sea fan (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

S Gontharet, C Pierre, MM Blanc-Valleron… - Deep Sea Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
During the NAUTINIL cruise (September–October 2003), mud volcanoes and pockmarks
located in four selected areas of the Nile deep-sea fan (caldera, central, eastern, North Alex) …

Marine geologic evidence for a Levantine-Sinai plate, a new piece of the Mediterranean puzzle

J Mascle, J Benkhelil, G Bellaiche, T Zitter… - …, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Marine geophysical data recorded offshore Egypt illustrate the presence of an active fault
belt, trending N145° E, that obliquely transects the eastern Nile deep-sea fan. This belt …

Widespread active seepage activity on the Nile Deep Sea Fan (offshore Egypt) revealed by high-definition geophysical imagery

S Dupré, J Woodside, I Klaucke, J Mascle, JP Foucher - Marine geology, 2010 - Elsevier
Fluid escape structures on the Nile Deep Sea Fan were investigated during the MEDIFLUX
MIMES expedition in 2004. Mud volcanoes, pockmarks and authigenic carbonate structures …