GAS FLAERS AND MODERN DEGASATION PROCESSES IN THE ARCTIC SEAS (ON THE FREQUENCY RESONANCE RESULTS-BASED)

• Published in: Geology and Mineral Resources of World Ocean
• Main Authors: V.D. Solovyov, M.A. Yakymchuk, I.M. Korchagin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Ukrainian
• Published: Publisher House Akademperiodyka 2023
• Subjects: remote methods; mobile technologies; seeps; pockmarks; north sea; spitsbergen; barents sea; arctic region; Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Barents Sea; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15407/gpimo2023.02.019; https://doaj.org/article/148873c14532499ba9f24b04137ea407

The newly obtained results of the frequency-resonance (FR) technologies application for the study of the sources and processes of seeps and pockmarks formation in the Arctic Region (Norwegian, Barents Sea) and the North Sea are considered. The experimental study of the seepage processes' source formation was carried out using modified methods of the FR-processing, and decoding of satellite images and photographs with the vertical scanning of the cross-sections. The study results of the methane seeps and pockmarks fields show that the intensity and dynamics of their formation partly depend on the inflow of gas fluids from deep sources because of active degassing processes. The use of FR-sounding technologies allows us to remotely determine the spatial regularities of zones of intense gas emission formation and the geological sources of migration probable depth. The study of seep and pockmark field results confirms the significant, but insufficiently taken into account, the influence of crust-mantle gas fluids on the nature and degassing processes features in the structures of the continental margins. New results confirm the crust-mantle gas fluids influence on the nature and degassing processes features in the scan points of Polar marginal structures. These data are important arguments in favor of the "volcanic model" of various structural elements formation in this Region. The FR- technologies data also showed a possibility of seeps and pockmarks use as shallow and deep hydrocarbon field indicators in gas emission areas. These independent data can be used in modeling the deep lithosphere structure and possible mechanisms of abiogenic hydrocarbon formation in Arctic margin structures. We suppose that hydrocarbons through deep channels migrate (from 57 km deep) to the upper crustal horizons where can form hydrocarbon fields. During this migration, gas seeps and pockmarks are formed on the sea bottom and part of the gas can migrate into the atmosphere. Modern degassing centers' studies have confirmed the presence ...