Feeding methane vents and gas hydrate deposits at south Hydrate Ridge

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Tréhu, Anne M ^a   Flemings, Peter B ^b   Bangs, Nathan L ^c   Chevallier, Johanna ^a   Gràcia, Eulàlia ^d   Johnson, Joel E ^a   Liu, C S ^e   Liu, Xiaoli ^b   Riedel, Michael ^f   Torres, Marta E ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

0915 Exploration Geophysics: Downhole methods; 0935 Exploration Geophysics: Seismic methods (3025); 5114 Physical Properties of Rocks: Permeability and porosity; 8145 Tectonophysics: Physics of magma and magma bodies

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DATA ACQUISITION; GAS HYDRATES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TURBIDITY;

GAS HYDRATE STABILITY ZONE (GHSZ); GAS SATURATIONS; METHANE VENTS; NEGATIVE POLARITY;

METHANE;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; GAS HYDRATE; TURBIDITE;

CASCADIA MARGIN; HYDRATE RIDGE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 20144389582     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021286     Document Type: Article

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