Fluid venting from a mud volcano in the Mediterranean Ridge Diapiric Belt

摘要: Direct observation of active emission fluids and mud from a submarine volcano were made for the first time in an extensive field diapirs volcanoes on Mediterranean Ridge using video camera towed 2 m above seafloor 1800 water. This recent research both long range deep-towed sidescan sonar systems indicates also that diapirism eruption along crest ridge is more common than previously thought. The southwards increase age rock fragments carried within erupted supports hypothesis fluid becomes overpressured southward-dipping backthrust Inner Deformation Front this accretionary prism.