Subsurface occurrence of natural gas hydrate in the Nankai Trough area: Implication for gas hydrate concentration

Resource Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-44

  Uchida, Takashi ^a   Lu, Hailong ^b   Tomaru, Hitoshi ^c   Matsumoto, Ryo ^c   Senoh, Osamu ^d   Oda, Hiroshi ^e   Okada, Shinichi ^d   Delwiche, Mark ^f   Dallimore, Scott R ^b  

^a JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO LTD   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPEX Research Center   (Japan)

^e AIST   (Japan)

^f IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas hydrate; Hydrate saturation; Methane; Nankai Trough; Occurrence; Permeability; Pore space hydrate; Porosity; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; FOREARC BASIN; GAS HYDRATE; METHANE; NATURAL GAS; PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE; POROSITY; SATURATION;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 2942534026     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2004.tb00185.x     Document Type: Article

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