WARDELL , N.

Funded by the EEC Sixth Framework Program, the SEAHELLARC project was aimed to evaluate, and better understand the causes, of the various natural geohazards (chiefly earthquakes and tsunamis), which frequently affect the western Peloponnese area and particularly its coastal domain; this region is one of the most ...

One of the objectives of the European project SEAHELLARC (SEismic and tsunami risk Assessment and mitigation scenarios in the western HELLenic ARC) was to identify the key elements controlling the geological structure of the Peloponnese continental margin in order to better understand the distribution of earthquakes in the area. Vintage...

The Nile deep-sea fan is the largest Plio-Quaternary depocentre in the Mediterranean Sea, extending over an area of >150,000 km2 within which rapid deposition drives syn-sedimentary collapse tectonics, as well as widespread seafloor venting of mixed thermogenic and biogenic gases. It is thus an ideal setting for the near-seabed accumulation of...

Deep-sea fans are favoured settings for the formation of gas hydrates, due to high sedimentation rates and organic matter content that promote the upwelling of methane-rich fluids. Gas hydrates have not been sampled on the Nile fan, but geophysical evidence of their presence is known to the Egyptian hydrocarbon industry. Here we use academic...

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