Velocity structure in marine sediments with gas hydrate reflectors in offshore SW Taiwan, from OBS data tomography

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 739-756

  Cheng, Win Bin ^a   Lee, Chao Shing ^b   Liu, Char Shine ^c   Schnürle, Philippe ^c   Lin, Shiao Shan ^b   Tsai, Hong Ruai ^b  

^a JINWEN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gas hydrates; Methane migration; OBS seismic data; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

MARINE SEDIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOMETRY; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 33846932797     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2006.17.4.739(GH)     Document Type: Article

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