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Mud Volcanoes of the Black Sea Region and their Environmental Significance

  • Offers a unique fusion of geology and environmental applications of our knowledge of mud volcanism in the Black Sea
  • Offers a wide range of subjects from geological to environmental and industrial applications
  • Offers a rich source of unpublished and new data, examples and illustrations so far unavailable to the western reader

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. History of the Geological Study of Mud Volcanoes in the Black Sea Region

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 1-20
  3. Study Area

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 21-23
  4. Materials and Methods

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 25-34
  5. Modern Ideas About Mud Volcanism

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 35-84
  6. Accompanying Mud Volcanic Structures

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 85-103
  7. Mud Volcanoes of the Black Sea Region

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 105-275
  8. Other Types of Degassing in the Black Sea

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 277-307
  9. Origin of Mud Volcanoes

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 309-392
  10. Mud Volcanism and Mineral Resources

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 393-434
  11. The Hazardous Nature of Mud Volcanoes

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 435-448
  12. Black Sea Methane and Marine Biota (Case Study)

    • Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach
    Pages 449-485
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 487-494

About this book

This exceptionally well-illustrated book at a high scientific level describes mud volcanism as a complex, multidimensional phenomenon requiring multidisciplinary study. Mud volcanoes can be used as “cheap windows” to search for gas-hydrates and other mineral resources in the Black Sea region. Nothing similar has been published before, and as one of its unique features the book includes a vast amount of new data unavailable so far to the western reader. The book includes new data on driving forces, mechanisms, origin, geological and geomorphological features of mud volcanoes as well as new data on composition of solid, gaseous, and liquid components of erupted material. It covers a wide geographic region, and its subjects range from geological to environmental to industrial applications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Marine Geology and the Sedimentary Ore Formation (OMGOR NASU), recently renamed the Center for Problems of Marine Geology, Geoecology and Sedimentary Ore Formation of the NASU, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Kiev, Ukraine

    Evgeny Shnyukov

  • Department of Physical and Marine Geology, Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine

    Valentina Yanko-Hombach

About the authors

Prof. Dr. Eugeny Shnyukov

Evgeny Shnyukov is an eminent Ukrainian scientist in geology, geochemistry, lithology, sedimentary ore-formation, marine geology, and minerals of the World Ocean. He is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Doctor of Geological-Mineralogical Sciences, Professor, Member of the International Academy of Sciences of Eurasia, Honorary Director of the Center for Problems of Marine Geology, Geoecology and Sedimentary Ore Formation of the NASU (former Department of Marine Geology and Sedimentary Ore-Formation of NASU), and Head of the Ukrainian Lithology Committee.  He has received many awards, including the State Award of Ukraine in Science and Technology, two State Prize of Ukraine for a series of works devoted to the World Ocean, gold medal “Leonardo da Vinci” of the International Academy of Sciences of Eurasia among many others. He has authored, coauthored, and edited over 700 scientific publications, including 50 books, and supervised over 30 PhD students. As the first scientist to recognize the need for marine geological research in Ukraine, he established the School of Marine Geology and Sedimentary Ore-Formation, and initiated a new stage in the study of sedimentary iron and manganese ores, geology of the Black and Azov Seas, as well as comprehensive geological–geophysical and metallogenic investigations of the World Ocean’s bottom sediments. He embraces a wide range of geological problems and represents a striking example of the fruitful union of science and practice. He supervised and actively participated in building of the Research Vessel “Geochimik” and headed a series of geological–geophysical expeditions on it and other research vessels. Materials from these expeditions led to the discovery of a submarine massif of crystalline rocks (Lomonosov Ridge), tens of mud volcanoes, and hundreds of gas seeps suggesting the presence of oil and gas beneath the Black Sea. Some of his books, such as The World of Minerals and Catastrophes in the Black Sea as well as many others have gained wide recognition and are already bibliographic rarities.

Valentina Yanko-Hombach is the world leading scientist in field of marine geology and micropaleontology (foraminifera). She is Doctor of Geological-Mineralogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Physical and Marine Geology of Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University, Head of the Scientific and Educational Center of Geoarchaeology, Marine and Environmental Geology, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine, President of the Avalon Institute of Applied Sciences, Winnipeg, Canada. She was a founder and past-president of the International Society of Environmental Micropalaeontology, Microbiology and Meiobenthology, and she has been president/executive director/plenary speaker at numerous international conferences, head of numerous international projects and research cruises, and chairman of special sessions and symposia at IGU, EGU, GSA, INQUA congresses and other international fora. She has received many awards including Certificate and Medal of the All-Ukrainian Union of Geologists, award of Excellence from Universities of  Palermo and Isparta, award of Excellence for Sustainable Development, Manitoba, Canada, and some others. In 1990 she initiated a multidisciplinary program in Environmental Micropalaeontology, through which she carried out pioneering research in both field and experimentally in the "Application of microorganisms to environmental change." The geographical area of her investigations covers the southern European Seas(Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, Sea of Azov, Caspian Sea, and Aral Sea) from the Quaternary to the present. She is author/coauthor of more that 350 scientific papers including eleven monographs. Fluent in several languages and working easily in both East and West,she is devoting her energies to bringing together internationally recognized experts on environmental micropalaeontology and the geological and archaeological history of the Black Sea and adjacent basins to integrate sedimentological, paleontological, and archaeological data, synthesise a vast amount of non-English literature, and bridge perceived and actual barriers between eastern and western researchers.


 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mud Volcanoes of the Black Sea Region and their Environmental Significance

  • Authors: Evgeny Shnyukov, Valentina Yanko-Hombach

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40316-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40315-7Published: 01 April 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40318-8Published: 01 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40316-4Published: 31 March 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 494

  • Number of Illustrations: 255 b/w illustrations, 215 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Earth System Sciences, Natural Hazards, Natural Resources, Mineralogy, Paleontology

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