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Extrusion: the formation mechanism for the presumed ‘turbidites’ of the deep Black Sea?

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In recent Black Sea sediments peculiar sediment layers occur which in sedimentological and geochemical composition differ from over- and underlying sediments. Originally described as turbidites they lack typical turbidite features. An alternative formation mechanism is proposed here and a conceptual model developed. This explains the occurrence of the so-called ‘Degens’-layers by density inversion eventually supported by exsolution of biogenic gas.

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  1. Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Technische Unversität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstraße 9, D-64287, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stephan Kempe

  2. Forschungszentrum Terramare, Schleusenstraße 1, D-26382, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

    Gerd Liebezeit

  3. Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey

    Muhammed Duman

  4. Center for Marine Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, J.C. Stennis Space Center, 39529, MS, USA

    Vernon Asper

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Kempe, S., Liebezeit, G., Duman, M. et al. Extrusion: the formation mechanism for the presumed ‘turbidites’ of the deep Black Sea?. Senckenbergiana maritima 31, 11–16 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03042832

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