QUARTERNARY MUD VOLCANOS SOUTHERN OF PLIN Y TROUGH (EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN)

High content of swelled phase in topical clays, composed the summit of mud volcanoes southern of Pliny trough, certificates that in the comp osition of sedimentary mass raising to the bottom surface dominated de posits, wasn't immersing up to the depth, where high temperatures and pressures dominate. Mud volcanoes activity wasn't relating with transf ormation and displacement of deeper sediments. It is quite probably th at the horizon of deposits initiated the activity of mud volcanoes lay s relatively at small depth under a rather thin cloak. of Quarternary and Pliocene sediments and perhaps the Messine salts. The thickness of the last after geophysical data here doesn't exceed 1000-1500 m. Rath er significant contents of middle and early Miocene faunae as well as in topical mud and in composition of fragment rocks, dispercing in it, certificates that exactly the deposits of this age have initiated the origin and the activity of the mud volcanoes.