Mud Volcanism
Mud volcanoes represent one of the
primary targets for oil companies as they are commonly associated with
oil/gas
fields. Since 1995 I participated to more than fifteen marine
expeditions
during which we discovered the main Mediterranean, Black Sea and Gulf of Cadiz mud volcano fields. I
completed
several onshore fieldworks mapping and sampling mud volcanoes in
Crimea, Trinidad, Italy, Indonesia
and Azerbaijan.
Other detailed studies were conducted on mud volcanoes and related
authigenic
carbonates from the Black Sea
involving
petrography, geochemical and laboratory simulation analyses. Our
results
defined the origin of the seeping fluids and investigated the shallow
deformations of the sedimentary sequences affected by rising-gas
deformation.
Publlished reports: (Ivanov
et al., 1996; Woodside et al.,
1997; Kenyon et al., 2000; Kenyon et al.,
2001; Kenyon et al., 2002; Akhmetzhanov et
al., 2007)
See
pics gallery below. If you
are interested in some of the material displayed please contact me.
INDONESIA (LUSI)
AZERBAIJAN
TRINIDAD
SALTON SEA
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Selected reading:
Mazzini,
A., 2009. Mud volcanism: Processes and
implications. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 26(9): 1677-1680. DOWNLOAD
Mazzini,
A., Nermoen, A., Krotkiewski, M.,
Podladchikov, Y., Planke, S. and Svensen, H., 2009a. Strike-slip
faulting as a
trigger mechanism for overpressure release through piercement
structures.
Implications for the Lusi mud volcano, Indonesia. Marine and Petroleum
Geology,
26(9): 1751-1765. DOWNLOAD
Mazzini,
A., Svensen, H., Planke, S., Guliyev,
I., Akhmanov, G.G., Fallik, T. and Banks, D., 2009b. When mud volcanoes
sleep:
Insight from seep geochemistry at the Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan.
Marine
and Petroleum Geology, 26(9): 1704-1715. DOWNLOAD
Skinner
Jr, J.A. and Mazzini, A., 2009. Martian
mud volcanism: Terrestrial analogs and implications for formational
scenarios.
Marine and Petroleum Geology, 26(9): 1866-1878. DOWNLOAD
Svensen, H., Hammer, Ø., Mazzini, A., Onderdonk,
N.,
Polteau, S., Planke, S. and Podladchikov, Y.Y., 2009. Dynamics of
hydrothermal
seeps from the Salton Sea geothermal system (California, USA)
constrained by
temperature monitoring and time series analysis. Journal of Geophysical
Research (Solid Earth), 114, B09201, doi:10.1029/2008JB006247. DOWNLOAD
Mazzini, A.,
Ivanov, M.K., Nermoen, A., Bahr, A., Borhmann, G., Svensen, H. and
Planke, S., 2008. Complex plumbing systems in the near subsurface:
geometries of authigenic carbonates from Dolgovskoy Mound (Black Sea)
constrained by analogue experiments. Marine & Petroleum Geology 25(6):
457-472. DOWNLOAD
Mazzini,
A., Svensen, H.,
Akhmanov, G.G., Aloisi, G., Planke, S., Malthe-Sorenssen, A. and
Istadi, B.,
2007. Triggering
and dynamic evolution of the LUSI mud
volcano, Indonesia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 261(3-4):
375-388. DOWNLOAD
H. Svensen, G. Gisler,
S.
Polteau, A. Mazzini, and S. Planke, 2007, Hydrothermal Vent complexes
and the
search of extra-terrestrial water. Lunar
and Planetary Science XXXVIII (2007) 2268.pdf
Mazzini, A.,
Ivanov, M.K.,
Parnell, J., Stadnitskaya, A., Cronin, B., Poludetkina, E., Mazurenko,
L., and van
Weering T.C.E., 2004.
Methane-related authigenic carbonates from the Black Sea: geochemical characterization
and relation
to seeping fluids. Marine Geology, 212 (1-4), 153-181. DOWNLOAD
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