HUGUEN , C.

Since 80 My, the eastern Mediterranean basin has been subjected to a complex evolution, controlled by the ongoing convergence between African and Eurasian plates (fig. 1). One of the consequences of this specific kinematics is the formation, within the Ionian and Levantine basins, of the Mediterranean Ridge, an atypical tectono-sedimentary...

Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, v. 52, n. 3, p. 457-475, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2004.10.005

Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, v. 52, n. 10, p. 1911-1931, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2005.05.006

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This paper reports the first "in situ" seafloor observations of fluid escape structures in a fault-controlled caldera-type depression of about 8 km diameter, named the Menes caldera, in the Eastern Mediterranean sea off Egypt (western province of the Nile Deep Sea Fan). A detailed analysis of seven Nautile dives, performed during the Nautinil...

We report on a multidisciplinary study of cold seeps explored in the Central Nile deep-sea fan of the Egyptian margin. Our approach combines in situ seafloor observation, geophysics, sedimentological data, measurement of bottom-water methane anomalies, pore-water and sediment geochemistry, and 230Th/U dating of authigenic carbonates. Two areas...

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