Sea-Floor Sunday #32: Mud volcano and associated mud flows
This week’s Sea-Floor Sunday grabs another great image from the Virtual Seismic Atlas website.
credit: Virtual Seismic Atlas (http://www.seismicatlas.org/)
The image above is the sea floor offshore Nigeria showing an active uplifting ridge with a mud volcano. Unfortunately there is no scale included on this image … my guess is that ridge is 3-5 km across. Also note the mud flows that have come off the flank of this ridge.
The image below zooms in a bit to highlight the mud flow texture.
credit: Virtual Seismic Atlas (http://www.seismicatlas.org/)
You can find this image here at the Virtual Seismic Atlas site.
See this Sea-Floor Sunday post from a couple weeks back showing another perspective of the Nigerian continental slope.
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Note: All images above are property of Virtual Seismic Atlas (VSA). They are available for personal or educational purposes, but please visit their site and read terms of use [pdf] before doing so.
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Clastic Detritus 
Hey Brian !
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Divya