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MUD VOLCANOES AS IMPORTANT PATHWAY FOR TRACE ELEMENTS INPUT TO THE ENVIRONMENT: CASE STUDY FROM THE KERCH-TAMAN PROVINCE, NORTHERN BLACK SEA
(STEF92 Technology, 2018-06-20, Ellina V. Sokol)
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Twenty eight onshore mud volcanoes of the Kerch-Taman province were analysed to evaluate their current contribution to the trace-element budget of the landscape. The study area belongs to the Indol?Kuban Trough, where the anoxic marine mudrocks of the Maykop Formation were deposited in the Oligocene ? Early Miocene in the northern deep-water margin of the Parathetis ocean. The Maykopian Fm. mudrocks are main sources of solid matter for numerous mud volcanoes of the region. Mud masses (30 samples) and mud volcanic ...
Ecology and Environmental Protection2018