STUDY OF GAS BIOGEOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF GASEOUS FLUIDS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE BLACK SEA

Abstract

Gaseous fluid flows from sediments into bottom water of seas and oceans attract attention of oceanographers, particularly specialists in gas geochemistry. Fluid flows from the Black Sea bottom were the main study object in Cruise 61 of the R/V Professor Vodyanitskii. The expedition was organized and conducted by the Division of Marine Geology and Sedimentary Ore Formation. Gas biogeochemical parameters were investigated at the Institute of Oceanology (Moscow). These works were aimed at studying spatial variations in gas biochemical parameters in seawater and bottom sediments in the zone of local fluid flows.