Dynamics of the gas flux from shallow gas hydrate deposits: Interaction between oily hydrate bubbles and the oceanic environment

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 411-424

  Leifer, Ira ^a   MacDonald, Ian ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble; Bubble size spectra; Hydrocarbon seepage; Methane; Oil; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GAS HYDRATE; GAS SEEPAGE; HYDROCARBON SEEP; METHANE; UPWELLING;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0037523377     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00173-0     Document Type: Article

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