Overpressure and fluid flow in the New Jersey continental, slope: Implications for slope failure and cold seeps

Science

Volumn 289, Issue 5477, 2000, Pages 288-291

  Dugan, Brandon ^a   Flemings, Peter B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD SEEP; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEBRIS AVALANCHE; DEBRIS FLOW; FLUID FLOW; MIOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OVERPRESSURE; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLEISTOCENE; SLOPE DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POROSITY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034647907     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5477.288     Document Type: Article

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43. This research would not have been possible without the efforts of M. Malone and the shipboard scientists and staff aboard Leg 174A of the drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution. The project was supported by Ocean Drilling Program grant 418925-BA206, NSF grant EAR-9614689, and the Penn State GeoFluids Consortium. B.D. is supported by a Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Advisory Committee Ocean Drilling Fellowship. Geolog (Paradigm) software was used to interpret well data.