The “chimney forest” of the deep Montenegrin margin, south-eastern Adriatic Sea

L Angeletti, S Canese, F Franchi, P Montagna… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2015 - Elsevier
A spectacular field of columnar carbonates has been discovered on the Montenegrin margin
in the southern Adriatic Sea at a depth of about 450 m. The site exposes many columnar …

The Pliocene-age Stirone river hydrocarbon chemoherm complex (northern Apennines, Italy)

S Cau, F Franchi, M Roveri, M Taviani - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Stirone River section in the Italian Northern Apennines hosts a rare example of
Pliocene age hydrocarbon-imprinted carbonates in the Mediterranean Basin associated with …

Authigenic minerals from the Paola Ridge (southern Tyrrhenian Sea): Evidences of episodic methane seepage

F Franchi, M Rovere, F Gamberi, H Rashed… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
Paola Ridge, along the NW Calabrian margin (southern Tyrrhenian Sea), is one of the few
reported deep sea sites of precipitation of authigenic carbonates in the Tyrrhenian Sea …

Fluid conduits formed along burrows of giant bivalves at a cold seep site, Sounthern Taiwan

JP Blouet, A Wetzel, S Ho - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
At a Pliocene methane seep site in Taiwan characterized by numerous tubular carbonate
bodies and bivalves, a half meter-long dolomitic concretion containing a lucinid bivalve …

Authigenic carbonate formation and its impact on the biomarker inventory at hydrocarbon seeps–a case study from the Holocene Black Sea and the Plio-Pleistocene …

M Blumenberg, EO Walliser, M Taviani, R Seifert… - Marine and petroleum …, 2015 - Elsevier
Carbonates are widespread at methane and petroleum seeps and are often precipitated as
consequence of an alkalinity increase due to the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) or …

Stable isotopes and rare earth element compositions of ancient cold seep carbonates from Enza River, northern Apennines (Italy): Implications for fluids sources and …

B Zhu, L Ge, T Yang, S Jiang, X Lv - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cold seep carbonates are remarkable fossil records of hydrocarbon seepage and related
conduits. In the present research, we analysed the carbon and oxygen isotopes, rare earth …

A genetic model of hydrocarbon-derived carbonate chimneys in shelfal fine-grained sediments: The Enza River field, Northern Apennines (Italy)

D Oppo, R Capozzi, V Picotti, A Ponza - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Methane Derived Authigenic Carbonate (MDAC) concretions have been recently
exposed in the Pleistocene Argille Azzurre Fm. outcropping along the Enza riverbanks …

[HTML][HTML] Mid-Pleistocene Transition at a shallowing shelf: Tectonic and eustatic forcings in the paleoenvironment of the Enza section, Northern Apennines mountain …

R Capozzi, V Picotti, VA Bracchi, F Caridi… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
We present an integrated sedimentological, paleontological and oxygen isotope
stratigraphic study of a Pleistocene marine to coastal section at the Enza river, allowing to …

Fluid sources and stable isotope signatures in authigenic carbonates from the Northern Apennines, Italy

D Oppo, I Viola, R Capozzi - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Authigenic carbonates are frequently associated with methane cold-seep systems, which
extensively occur in various geologic settings worldwide. Of interest is the relation between …

Methane-derived carbonate conduits from the late Aptian of Salinac (Marne Bleues, Vocontian Basin, France): Petrology and biosignatures

J Reitner, M Blumenberg, EO Walliser… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2015 - Elsevier
Peculiar carbonate bodies occur in distinct marl layers of the Marnes Bleues Formation
(Aptian–Albian, Vocontian Basin, Southern France). The carbonate conduits exhibit pipe-or …