NEW DATA ON SEISMOSTRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION ON THE WESTERN SLOPE OF THE MIDDLE CASPIAN

Abstract

The sedimentary sequence of the Caspian Sea is generally well studied by geological and geophysical methods, particularly multichannel seismic profiling, which was mainly aimed at study of the deep structure of the sedimentary cover with perspectives for the discovery of hydrocarbon traps. However, data available for the upper part of the Pliocene–Quaternary sedimentary sequence are insufficiently detailed, because the majority of regional continuous seismic profiling (CSP) works were carried out in the 1970s–1980s using low-resolution equipment.