Monitoring of Shallow-Water Methane Seeps at Cape Fiolent (Black Sea)

T. V. Malakhova; Малахова Т. В.; L. V. Malakhova; Малахова Л. В.; A. I. Murashova; Мурашова А. И.; A. A. Budnikov; Будников А. А.; I. N. Ivanova; Иванова И. Н.; E. A. Krasnova; Краснова Е. А.

doi:10.31857/S0030157423010082

Monitoring of Shallow-Water Methane Seeps at Cape Fiolent (Black Sea)

Autores: Malakhova T.¹, Malakhova L.¹, Murashova A.¹, Budnikov A.², Ivanova I.², Krasnova E.³^,4
Afiliações:
1. A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS
2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Physics
3. Moscow State University, Faculty of Geology, Department of Geology and Geochemistry of Fossil Fuels
4. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
Edição: Volume 63, Nº 1 (2023)
Páginas: 135-148
Seção: Морская геология
URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0030-1574/article/view/136230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0030157423010082
EDN: https://elibrary.ru/AGTEEO
ID: 136230

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During the period from 2019 to 2021, complex studies of new shallow-water methane bubble gas emission sites were carried out in the coastal zone near Cape Fiolent (Southwest Coast of Crimea). The studies included determining the hydrocarbon and isotopic composition of bubble gas, measuring the concentration of methane and nutrients in the water in the areas of gas emissions, estimating the value of bubble flows, and measuring hydrophysical parameters over the sip sites compared to background areas. The seasonal type of Cape Fiolent methane seeps was noted, its active phases of gas emissions differed in duration in different years. The increased pore water silica concentration at the seep sites and their localization in the vicinity of freshwater slope springs may indicate its association with submarine freshwater discharge in the area. However, no significant desalination of both pore water and the bottom water layer above the siphons was recorded. Dissolved methane concentrations in pore water at seep sites were two orders of magnitude higher compared to background areas and reached 448 μmol/L. Also high values were obtained for surface water directly above the bubble gas emission points (maximum 353 nmol/L). Multi-hour monitoring of hydrophysical parameters above the active seeps showed a dissolved oxygen decrease compared to the background sites. The maximum difference in O₂ concentrations was 3 mg/l. The carbon isotopic composition of bubble gas methane δ¹³C-CH₄ (–62.84…38.27‰) and сarbon dioxide δ¹³C-CO₂ (–16.83…–10.17‰) was corresponded to a mixture of isotopically heavy gas and near-surface isotopically light gas of microbial origin. The question remains open: what are the reasons for the change in the summer active and the cold season passive gas emission phases?

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Black Sea, bubble gas emissions, methane, freshwater submarine discharge, carbon isotopic composition of methane

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