FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Cold seeps along the main Marmara Fault in the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) BT AF ZITTER, T HENRY, P ALOISI, G DELAYGUE, G CAGATAY, M DE LEPINAY, B AL SAMIR, M FORNACCIARI, F TESMER, M PEKDEGER, A WALLMANN, K LERICOLAIS, Gilles AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:1;5:3;6:4;7:5;8:1;9:5;10:5;11:6;12:7; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:PDG-DOP-DCB-GM-LES; C1 Univ Aix Marseille 3, CEREGE, CNRS INSU, IRD,Coll France, F-13545 Aix En Provence 04, France. Univ Lyon 3, PEPS, CNRS INSU, Lyon, France. Istanbul Tech Univ, TR-80626 Istanbul, Turkey. Univ Nice, CNRS INSU, IRD, Nice, France. Free Univ Berlin, D-1000 Berlin, Germany. Res Ctr Marine Geosci, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany. IFREMER, French Res Inst Exploitat Sea, F-29280 Brest, France. C2 UNIV AIX MARSEILLE, FRANCE UNIV LYON, FRANCE UNIV TECH ISTANBUL, TURKEY UNIV NICE, FRANCE UNIV FREE BERLIN, GERMANY GEOMAR, GERMANY IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-DOP-DCB-GM-LES IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 1.791 TC 75 TU Aix-Marseille université Centre national de la recherche scientifique Collège de France Institut de recherche pour le développement UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4065.pdf LA English DT Article CR MARMARASCARPS MD 138 / VANIL VT 67 / MARMARA VT VT 68 / MARMACORE 2 - SEDIMO BO L'Atalante Marion Dufresne DE ;High permeability pathways;Fault scarp;Seafloor observations;Cold seeps;Sea of Marmara AB The main Marmara Fault exhibits numerous sites of fluid venting, observed during previous cruises and in particular with R.O.V. VICTOR during the MARMARASCARPS cruise (2002). Long CALYPSO cores were recovered near active vents and at reference sites during the MARMARA-VT cruise (2004), together with echosounder sub-bottom profiles (frequency of 3.5kHz). We compiled R.O.V. video observations from MARMARASCARPS cruise and show that all known seeps occur in relationship with strike-slip faults, providing pathways for fluid migration. Among the main active sites, a distinction is made between gas seeps and water seeps. At gas seeps, bubble emissions at the seafloor or disturbed echofacies on sounder profiles demonstrate the presence of free methane gas at a shallow depth within the sediment. Most cores displayed gas-related expansion, most intense for cores taken within the gas plumes. On the other hand. authigenic carbonate chimneys characterize the water seeps and visible water outflow was observed at two sites (in the Tekirdag and Central basins). The pore fluid chemistry data show that the water expelled at these sites is brackish water trapped in the sediment during lacustrine times (before 14 cal kyr BP), in relation with the paleoceanography in the Sea of Marmara. The chimney site in the Tekirdag Basin is located at the outlet of a canyon feeding a buried fan with coarse sandy turbidites. Pore fluid composition profiles indicate that the sand layers channel the brackish fluids laterally from the basin into the fault zone at less than 20 m depth. However, a deeper gas source cannot be excluded. PY 2008 PD APR SO Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers SN 0967-0637 PU Elsevier VL 55 IS 4 UT 000255734300012 BP 552 EP 570 DI 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.01.002 ID 4065 ER EF