GEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES FOR ENDOGENOUS NATURAL HAZARDS OF THE TAMAN PENINSULA

Abstract

Except for the earthquakes, essential hazard on Taman peninsula is represented with mud volcanoes. Besides slow liberation of gas, water and a mud, volcanoes show also powerful explosive eruptions. On an example of a Karabetova mud volcano it is shown, that on a surface at such eruptions the fissures which are finding out the big similarity with seismic ruptures are formed. Hazard is represented also with displacement on faults for which mud volcanoes are dated. These faults have small length (hundreds meters - the first kilometers), but differ high modern activity and are traced for limits of mud-volcanic constructions.