@article{7075efb693d54eb3b3788dc87bd6ff44,
title = "Discovery of massive seafloor gas seepage along the Wagner Fault, northern Gulf of California",
abstract = "Large-scale gas seepage and fluid ejection features are described from the edges of the active pull-apart Wagner and Consag basins (northern Gulf of California, Mexico), at water depths between ~. 65 and 150. m. Gas vents, pockmarks, possible mud volcanoes, pyrite- and barite-rich sediments, slabs of lithified shell debris, and chemosynthetic fauna were found. Gas venting occurs mainly through N-S synsedimentary small-scale faults and fault-propagation folds that are believed to derive from the Wagner Fault. The presumed mud volcanoes are sub-rounded, domed bathymetric features, several hundreds of metres across, underlain by gas-charged sediments and surrounded by gas vents. Upward gas migration throughout the thick sedimentary sequence produces the fluid expulsion features on the sea floor.",
keywords = "Barite, Bubble seep, Chemosynthetic, Hydroacoustic flare, Mud volcano, Rifting",
author = "Carles Canet and Prol-Ledesma, {Rosa Mar{\'i}a} and Dando, {Paul R.} and Viridiana V{\'a}zquez-Figueroa and Evgueni Shumilin and Elisabet Birosta and Alberto S{\'a}nchez and Robinson, {Carlos J.} and Antoni Camprub{\'i} and Esperan{\c c}a Tauler",
note = "Funding Information: Funding for the “WAG-01” campaign was provided by the UNAM projects IN-106907 (PAPIIT) and Desalaci{\'o}n de agua de mar con energ{\'i}as renovables (IMPULSA). Additional funding was provided by project CONACyT CB-2007-01-80872 . We are very grateful to the crew of the R/V El Puma, especially to Captain H{\'e}ctor U. Guti{\'e}rrez Granja and Adri{\'a}n Cant{\'u} Alvarado. The Comisi{\'o}n Acad{\'e}mica de Buques Oceanogr{\'a}ficos (CABO, UNAM) is thanked for supporting the campaign. A. Estradas, G. Rodr{\'i}guez-Figueroa, C. {\'A}ngeles, J. A. Romero Guadarrama, C. G{\'o}mez, and L.I. S{\'a}nchez Vargas are thanked for their help during the cruise. Sara I. Franco, R.E. Villanueva-Estrada and J.R. Pel{\'a}ez-Gaviria are thanked for their assistance in the processing of acoustic and geochemical data. ",
year = "2010",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.05.004",
language = "Ingl{\'e}s",
volume = "228",
pages = "292--303",
journal = "Sedimentary Geology",
issn = "0037-0738",
number = "3-4",
}