Abstract

A newly discovered area of mud volcanism, about 170 km south of Crete, in the central–eastern part of the Mediterranean Ridge, was named the “United Nations Rise” (UNR). A survey of the UNR area with the deep-towed ORE tech side-scan sonar equipped with a subbottom profiler revealed the presence of some mud volcanoes and also showed various other sea-floor features, including slumps, escarpments and pockmark-type depressions. Several of our interpretations were ground-truthed by coring. The UNR area appears to belong to the Inner deformation front of the Mediterranean Ridge.

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