At a time, when the five riparian countries have renewed consultation with each other about
the future of the Caspian Sea, it is appropriate to propose a state of the art of the potential …

Anthropogenic oil in the ocean is of great concern due to its potential immediate and long‐
term impacts on the ecosystem, economy, and society, leading to intense societal efforts to …

Three-dimensional seismic reflection data, well data, and analogues from areas with
extensive shale tectonics indicate that the enigmatic deepwater “shale nappe or thrust …

Azerbaijan occupies an area of about 87,000 km2 in the unique tectonic environment (the
Greater and Lesser Caucasus, Talysh Mts., Kur and Caspian Basins, etc.) that finds a …

Degradation mechanisms affecting non-methane volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during
gas uprising from different hypogenic sources to the surface were investigated through …

We characterise the mineralogy and geochemistry of Oligo-Miocene Maykopian shales that
are currently extruded by onshore mud volcanoes of the Kerch-Taman Province (the …

Mud volcanism is a process that leads to the extrusion of subsurface mud, fragments of
country rocks, saline waters and gases. This mechanism is typically linked to hydrocarbon …

Mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan present some of the largest and most well-preserved edifices
among all the onshore examples. We examined their morphology based on remote sensing …

Mud volcanism is commonly observed in Azerbaijan and the surrounding South Caspian
Basin. This natural phenomenon is very similar to magmatic volcanoes but differs in one …

ABSTRACT A geochemical study was carried out on gas, water and mud samples from four
mud volcanoes in Gorgan Plain, SE Caspian Sea (Iran) in order to investigate fluid primary …