MOSCOW March 26. 2024 (Saba) - Scientists of the Institute of Earth's crust of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with colleagues from the Institute of Aquatic Sciences have discovered new mud volcanoes in Lake Baikal.
The magazine "Science in Siberia" reported on Tuesday that this discovery helps to obtain additional information on the structure of the topography of the lake bed, which has not been studied in detail and complete."
Scientists from the Earth's Crust Institute and the Institute of Water Body Science have discovered new mud volcanoes in Lake Baikal, which researchers believe were caused by the activity of the Severwaikalsky fault, which is located along the northwest coast of the lake."
She pointed out that these data obtained will form the basis for the interpretation of new information about the structure of the terrain and the processes occurring at the bottom of Lake Baikal, which are still not sufficiently studied.
The scientists conducted a study of the bottom using remote-controlled unmanned submarines, which are robots equipped with a video camera, photography, and an underwater voice navigation system.
Dr Oksana Lunina, a researcher at the institute, said: "We decided to study several underwater places versus the Severwaikalski fault. We discovered mud volcanoes here, although we only expected to see cracks. Because the bottom of Lake Baikal near the shore is usually composed of rocky gravel material and deeper silt deposits.
As we discovered here, porous clay, different from the usual."
"Mud volcanoes must be studied, because they indicate cracks parallel to the Severopaica fault, this is evidence that the rift is active and effective, and in the Severobical depression, which is bounded by this fault, strong earthquakes have occurred in the past, and biological studies of living organisms are of particular importance, because it is important for biologists to know the specificity of the evolution of life in different conditions - outside mud volcanoes and where their appearance is observed," added Lunina.
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