Direct measurement of in situ methane quantities in a large gas-hydrate reservoir

Nature

Volumn 385, Issue 6615, 1997, Pages 426-428

  Dickens, Gerald R ^a,d   Paull, Charles K ^b   Wallace, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GAS; HYDRATION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GAS HYDRATE; GAS HYDRATES; METHANE; RESERVOIR;

ATLANTIC, BLAKE RIDGE;

EID: 0030621309     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/385426a0     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Sloan, E. D. Clathrate Hydrates of Gases (Dekker, New York, 1990).
2. Kvenvolden, K. A. Rev. Geophys. 31, 173-187 (1993).
3. Miller, J. J., Lee, M. W. & von Huene, R. Bull. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. 75, 910-924 (1991).
4. Hyndman, R. D. & Spence, G. D. J. Geophys. Res. 97, 6683-6698 (1992).
5. Singh, S. C., Minshull, T. A. & Spence, G. D. Science 260, 204-207 (1993).
6. Lee, M. W. et al. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 10, 493-506 (1993).
7. Katzman, R., Holbrook, W. S. & Paull, C. K. J. Geophys. Res. 99, 17975-17995 (1994).
8. Wood, W. T., Stoffa, P. L. & Shipley, T. H. J. Geophys. Res. 99, 9681-9695 (1994).
9. Pecher, I. A., Minshull, T. A., Singh, S. C. & von Huene, R. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 139, 459-469 (1996).
10. Nisbet, E. G. Can. J. Earth Sci. 27, 148-157 (1990).
11. Paull, C. K., Ussler, W. & Dillon, W. P. Geophys. Res. Lett. 18, 432-434 (1991).
12. Dickens, G. R., O'Neil, J. R., Rea, D. K. & Owen, R. M. Paleoceanography 10, 965-971 (1995).
13. Gornitz, V. & Fung, I. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 8, 335-347 (1994).
14. Bangs, N. L. B., Sawyer, D. S. & Golovchenko, X. Geology 21, 905-908 (1993).
15. MacKay, M. E., Jarrard, R. D., Westbrook, G. K., Hyndman, R. D. & Shipboard Scientific Party of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 146 Geology 22, 459-462 (1994).
16. Brown, K. M., Bangs, N. L., Froelich, P. N. & Kvenvolden, K. A. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 139, 471-483 (1996).
17. Froelich, P. N. et al. Proc. ODP Sci. Res. 141, 279-286 (1995).
18. Holbrook, W. S. et al. Science 273, 1840-1843 (1996).
19. Dillon, W. P. & Paull, C. K. in Natural Gas Hydrates, Properties, Occurrence and Recovery (ed. Cox, J. L.) 73-90 (Butterworth, Woburn, MA, 1983).
20. Paull, C. K. et al. Proc. ODP Init. Rep. 164, (in the press).
21. Pettigrew, T. L. ODP Tech. Note 17, 1-291 (1992).
22. Miller, S. L. in Natural Gases in Marine Sediments (ed. Kaplan, I. R.) 151-177 (Plenum, New York, 1974).
23. Handa, Y. P. J. Phys. Chem. 94, 2652-2657 (1990).
24. Duan, Z., Møller, N., Greenberg, J. & Weare, J. H. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 56, 1451-1460 (1992).
25. Beck, R. J. Oil Gas J. 94, 57-77 (1996).
26. Broecker, W. S. & Peng, T.-H. in The Global Carbon Cycle (ed. Heimann, M.) 95-115 (NATO ASI Ser. I Vol. 15, Springer, Berlin, 1993).
27. Kvenvolden, K. A., Barnard, L. A. & Cameron, D. H. Init. Rep. DSDP 76, 367-375 (1983).