Gas hydrate destabilization: Enhanced dewatering, benthic material turnover and large methane plumes at the Cascadia convergent margin

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 1-15

  Suess, E ^a   Torres, M E ^b   Bohrmann, G ^a   Collier, R W ^b   Greinert, J ^a   Linke, P ^a   Rehder, G ^a   Trehu, A ^b   Wallmann, K ^a   Winckler, G ^c   Zuleger, E ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biota; Cascadia subduction zone; Gas hydrates; Helium; Hydrothermal vents; Isotopes; Methane; Oxidation

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEWATERING; GAS HYDRATE; METHANE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033618012     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00092-8     Document Type: Article

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