Reply to comment on: Seafloor fades related to upward methane flux within a Giant Pockmark of the Lower Congo Basin

摘要

The model of a Giant Pockmark described in Gay et al. (2006) is based on a morpho-analysis of bathymetric-reflectivity maps (EM12 multibeam) and micro-bathymetry (ROV), geophysical analysis of ID High-Resolution and 3.5 kHz seismic profiles, sedimen-tological descriptions of gravity cores, chemical and geochemical analyses of shallow sediments, gas hydrates and bottom waters, mineralogical analyses of hard samples, and biological descriptions (photographs and video records from ROV dives). This paper is one of the first attempt to integrate the whole range of data available on a seep site in an unique geophysical-geochemical-sedimentological-mineralogical-biologi-cal model.