Massive vein-filling gas hydrate: Relation to ongoing gas migration from the deep subsurface in the Gulf of Mexico

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 551-560

  Sassen, R ^a   Losh, S L ^b   Cathles Iii, L ^b   Roberts, H H ^c   Whelan, J K ^d   Milkov, A V ^a   Sweet, S T ^a   DeFreitas, D A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas hydrate; Gulf of Mexico; Hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

GAS FLUXEX;

BACTERIOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS; OIL FIELDS; OXIDATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEAWATER;

GAS HYDRATES;

CENOZOIC; FAULTING; GAS HYDRATE; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0035326685     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(01)00014-9     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Radiometric dating of hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico
2. Mechanisms of climate warming at the end of the Paleocene
3. Thermogenic gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico
4. Association of gas hydrates and oil seepage in the Gulf of Mexico
5. Formation of natural gas hydrates in marine sediments. 1. Conceptual model of gas hydrate growth conditioned by host sediment properties
6. Fractionation of carbon and hydrogen isotopes by methane oxidizing bacteria
7. Jolliet field thrust structure and stratigraphy Green canyon block 184, offshore Louisiana
8. Dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate as a cause of the carbon isotope excursion at the end of the Paleocene
9. A blast of gas in the latest Paleocene: Simulating first-order effects of massive dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate
10. Cenozoic depositional history of the Gulf of Mexico Basin
11. Lessons learned from deep-sea mining
12. Are there commercial deposits of marine hydrates in ocean sediments
13. The global flux of methane from shallow submarine sediments
14. Microbial alteration of subsurface natural gas accumulations
15. Contributions to atmospheric methane by natural seepages on the UK continental shelf
16. Leakage of deep, reservoired petroleum to the near surface of the Gulf of Mexico continental slope
17. A review of the geochemistry of methane in natural gas hydrate
18. Potential effects of gas hydrate on human welfare
19. Role of methane clathrates in past and future climates
20. Gas hydrate that breaches the sea-floor on the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico
21. Sea-floor methane blow-out and global firestorm at the K-T boundary
22. Thickness of the gas hydrate stability zone, Gulf of Mexico continental slope
23. Gas hydrates at minimum stability water depths in the Gulf of Mexico: Significance to geohazard assessment
24. Leg 164 overview
25. Surficial gas hydrates of the Louisiana continental slope- Initial results of direct observations and in situ data collection
26. High frequency near-bottom acoustic reflection signatures of hydrocarbon seeps on the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope
27. Late Triassic-Jurassic paleogeography and origin of Gulf of Mexico basin
28. Evidence of structure H hydrate, Gulf of Mexico continental slope
29. Hydrocarbons of experimental and natural gas hydrates, Gulf of Mexico continental slope
30. Chemosynthetic bacterial mats at cold hydrocarbon seeps, Gulf of Mexico continental slope
31. Geology and geochemistry of gas hydrates, central Gulf of Mexico continental slope
32. Thermogenic gas hydrates and hydrocarbon gases in complex chemosynthetic communities. Gulf of Mexico continental slope
33. Thermogenic vent gas and gas hydrate in the Gulf of Mexico slope: Is gas hydrate decomposition significant
34. Isotope analyzes of gases in gas field and gas storage operations
35. Nature of frequency of occurrence of non-thermal alteration processes in offshore Gulf of Mexico petroleum
36. Northern Gulf of Mexico: An integrated approach to source, maturation, and migration
37. Evidence for sulfate-reducing and methane producing microorganisms in sediments from sites 618, 619, and 622. A. H. Bouma
38. Microbiologic alteration of petroleum in the reservoir
39. Evolution of the northern Gulf of Mexico with emphasis on Cenozoic growth faulting and the role of salt