Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

TL;DR: It is proposed that intrusion of voluminous mantle-derived melts in carbon-rich sedimentary strata in the northeast Atlantic may have caused an explosive release of methane—transported to the ocean or atmosphere through the vent complexes—close to the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary.

TL;DR: In this article, a new type of geological structures, termed breccia pipes, rooted in the aureoles within the shale of the Western Karoo Basin, were found to be formed due to gas pressure build-up during metamorphism of the shales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe experiments on a granular system (a pile of rice) in which the dynamics exhibit self-organized critical behaviour in one case (for grains with a large aspect ratio) but not in another (for less elongated grains).

TL;DR: In this article, a newly born mud volcano appearing close to an active magmatic complex in a backarc sedimentary basin in Indonesia was reported, where the location of the mud volcano close to magmatic volcanoes results in a high background temperature gradient that triggers mineralogical transformations and geochemical reactions at shallow depth.

TL;DR: In this article, a linear relationship between the depth of emplacement and the size of the saucer-shaped intrusions in sedimentary basins has been found to exist in the Norwegian and North Sea basins and onshore in the Karoo Basin of South Africa.