Liquefied vs stratified sediment mobilization processes: Insight from the South of the Barbados accretionary prism

Anatomy of a fluid pipe in the Norway Basin: Initiation, propagation and 3D shape

“…Many leakage structures, such as pipes, pockmarks, sandstone intrusions or mud-volcanoes are some geological features that require high pore fluid pressures to form (Cowley and O'Brien, 2000;Graue, 2000;Jolly and Lonergan, 2002;Bünz et al, 2003;Planke et al, 2003;Jamtveit et al, 2004;Loncke et al, 2004;Berndt, 2005;Deville et al, 2006;Gay et al, 2006. Abnormal pore fluid pressures are commonly encountered at depth in most sedimentary basins.…”

Role of the shale tectonics on the evolution of the Eastern Venezuelan Cenozoic thrust and fold belt

“…Mud volcanism has been interpreted as a widespread phenomenon in the whole Maturin basin (Lavayssee, 1813 in;Liddle, 1946;Zannin and Marino, 1983;Urbani, 1991;Giraldo et al, 2000;Aslan et al, 2001;Duerto and McClay, 2002;Deville et al, 2006;Duerto, 2008;Fig. 6).…”

Tectonic shortening and gravitational spreading in the Gulf of Cadiz accretionary wedge: Observations from multi-beam bathymetry and seismic profiling

“…the Barbados Ridge (Westbrook and Smith, 1983;Brown and Westbrook, 1988;Faugeres et al, 1997;Deville et al, 2006) and the Mediterranean Ridge (Huguen et al, 2004;Chamot-Rooke et al, 2005). In accretionary wedges, the compression and tectonic burial of accreted and underthrust sediment and diagenetic processes, such as the smectite-illite transition, leads to the development of excess fluid pressure and subsequent dewatering to the surface that mobilises mud from argillaceous units on its upward path.…”