Scientific journal
Scientific Review. Geographical Sciences

SEISMOACOUSTICAL ANOMALIES WITHIN SEDIMENT COVER OF THE WESTERN RUSSIAN SEAS

Путанс В.А., Левченко О.В., Мерклин Л.Р., Мерклин Л.Р., Плешков А.Ю.
Seismoacoustics is branch of shallow seismics using high frequencies acoustic weaves. Strong anthropogenic pressure due to exploration of shelf resources, impacts environment negatively and can cause its response in terms of catastrophe. Forecasting geohazards is based on analysis of geological and geophysical data, especially seismoacoustic one. Analysis of acoustic field anomalies can help in revealing possible geohazards area with high reliability. For example, problem of gas-saturated sediments and gas seeping is of great importance both for academia (climatology, ecology, ocean lithogenesis etc) and applied investigations for shelf exploration (safe exploitation of well constructions). The paper presents several examples of data from western Russian seas from nearby of proved hydrocarbon fields.