Discovery of numerous pingos and comet-shaped depressions offshore southwestern Taiwan,Geo-Marine Letters

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Discovery of numerous pingos and comet-shaped depressions offshore southwestern Taiwan
Geo-Marine Letters ( IF 1.4 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s00367-019-00577-z
Tzu-Ting Chen , Charles K. Paull , Char-Shine Liu , Ingo Klaucke , Ho-Han Hsu , Chih-Chieh Su , Roberto Gwiazda , David W. Caress

High-resolution bathymetry collected with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) along the flanks of three ridges of the accretionary prism offshore southwestern (SW) Taiwan revealed more than 650 elongated depressions in water depths ranging from 1155 to 1420 m. The depressions are between 12 and 129 m long, 5 to 70 m wide, and up 9 m deep at their center and shallowing downslope to about 1-m depth. Due to their shape in downslope cross section, they are termed comet-shaped depressions (CSD). The CSD occur in patches of more than 100 with densities of 53 to 98 CSD/km2. In addition, seven topographic mounds were mapped and interpreted as pingos, which remotely operate vehicle (ROV) observations and sampling show to be covered with authigenic carbonate. These features overlie areas where multichannel seismic reflection (MCS) profiles show bottom simulating reflectors (BSR) and dipping strata extending from below the BSR to near the seafloor. We consider comet-shaped depression, a new type of pockmark, forms on a sloping seafloor where fluids expulsion occurred. We also suggest that the two types of distinctive geomorphic features are attributed to fluid venting which occurs at different rates, with the mounds developing slowly over time, but the CSD forming in discrete events perhaps associated with large earthquakes.

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