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Fluid seepage and mound formation offshore Costa Rica revealed by deep-towed sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiler data
Authors
Ingo Klaucke
Carl Jörg Petersen
César R. Ranero
Wilhelm Weinrebe
Publication date
11 October 2013
Publisher
Elsevier
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10 pages, 7 figuresOur analysis of geoacoustic data from the Middle American margin provides an insight into the formation and evolution mechanisms of mound structures observed on the continental slope offshore Costa Rica. Based on high-resolution deep-towed sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiler (SBP) data six different mound and fluid seepage structures at the Hongo mound field are characterized in detail. The Hongo mound field is located on the lower continental slope offshore Nicoya peninsula in the prolongation of the subducting Nicoya fracture zone. The mounds have oval to circular shapes with diameters of 500-1600 m and relief heights of 60-100 m. High backscatter anomalies near the mound summits indicate carbonate precipitation and focused fluid seepage activity within the last 10 ka. The data do not show evidence for mud extrusions and the structures were probably formed by a combination of carbonate precipitation and mud diapirism. Based on seismic stratigraphy analysis, mud diapirism is at least active since 42.5-57 ka and average vertical growth rates vary between 6-24 cm/ka. However, if diapirism represents the dominant mound evolution mechanism, mound heights of 80 m point to much older mound ages of 330-1330 ka. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reservedFunding for the cruise and subsequent work has been provided by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). This publication is contribution 179 of the Sonderforschungsbereich 574 “Volatiles and fluids in subduction zones” at Kiel UniversityPeer Reviewe
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