The characteristics of BSRs and their derived heat flow on the profile 973 in the northeastern South China Sea

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1508-1517

  Song, Hai Bin ^a   Wu, Shi Guo ^b   Jiang, Wei Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bottom simulating reflection; Gas hydrates; Heat flow; Northeastern South China Sea; Stability zone

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAS HYDRATE; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; HEAT FLOW; ISLAND ARC; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; TRENCH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HENGCHUN PENINSULA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 38849175490     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Shipley T H, Houston M H, Buller R T, et al. Seismic evidence for wide-spread possible gas hydrate horizons on continental slopes and margins. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull., 1979,63:2204-2213
2. Chen D F, Li X X, Xia B. Distribution of gas hydrate stable zones and resource prediction in the Qiongdongnan Basin of the South China Sea. Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 2004,47(3):483-489
3. Chen D F, Wang M C, Xia B. Formation condition and distribution prediction of gas hydrate in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau permafrost. Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 2005,48(1):165-172
4. Chi W C, Reed D L, Liu C S, et al. Distribution of the bottom simulating reflector in the offshore Taiwan collision area. Terrestrial Atmospheric Ocean Sciences, 1998,9:779-794
5. Chow J, Lee J S, Liu C S, et al. Characteristics of the bottom reflectors near mud diapers: offshore southwestern Taiwan. Geo-Marine Letters, 2000,20:3-9
6. Shyu C-T, Hsu S-K, Liu C-S. Heat flows off southwest Taiwan: measurements over mud diapers and estimated from bottom simulating reflectors. Terrestrial Atmospheric Ocean Sciences, 1998,9:795-812
7. McDonnell S L,Max M D, Cherkis N Z, et al. Tectono-sedimentary controls on the likelihood of gas hydrate occurrence near Taiwan. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2000,17:929-936
8. He L, Wang K, Xiong L, et al. Heat flow and the thermal history of the South China Sea. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2001,126:211-220
9. Miles P R. Potential distribution of methane hydrate beneath the European continental margins. Geophys. Res. Lett., 1995, 22; 3179-3182
10. Rao Y H. C-program for the calculation of gas hydrate stability zone thickness. Computers & Geosciences, 1999,25:705-707
11. Sloan Jr E D. Clathrate Hydrates of Natural Gases. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1998. 705
12. Yamano M, Uyeda R M, Aoki Y, et al. Estimates of heat flow derived from gas hydrates. Geology, 1982,10:339-343
13. Ganguly N, Spence G D, Chapman N R. Heat flow variations from bottom simulating reflectors on the Cascadia margin. Marine Geology, 2000,164:53-68
14. Kaul N, Rosenberger A, Villinger H. Comparison of measured and BSR-derived heat flow values, Makran accretionary prism, Pakistan. Marine Geology, 2000,164:37-51
15. Davis E E, Hyndman R D, Villinger H. Rates of fluid expulsion across the northern Cascadia accretionary prism: constraints from new heat flow and multichannel seismic reflection data. J. Geophys. Res., 1990,95:8869-8889
16. Ashi J, Tokuyama H, Taira A. Distribution of methane hydrate BSRs and its implication for the prism growth in the Nankai Trough. Marine Geology, 2002,187:177-191
17. Song H B, Wu N Y, Wu S G, et al. Seismic data processing of one 973 profile and its BSR characteristics in northeastern South China Sea. In: Li J B, Gao S eds. Sea-basin Evolution and Resources of Chinese Marginal Seas (in Chinese). Beijing: Ocean Press, 2004.
18. Deng H, Yan P, Liu H L. An analysis on bottom simulating reflectors in southwest Taiwan sea area. Journal of Tropical Oceanography (in Chinese), 2005,24(2):79-85
19. Ding W W, Chen H L, Wang Y M, et al. Geophysical features of gas hydrate in Taiwan accretionary prism, South China Sea. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica (in Chinese), 2006,37(1):90-96
20. Yao B C. Preliminary survey of gas hydrates in north of South China Sea. Mar. Geol. & Quaternary Geol. (in Chinese), 1998,18(4): 11-18
21. Song H B, Geng J H, Wong H-K, et al. A preliminary study of gas hydrates in Dongsha region north of South China Sea. Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 2001,44(5):687-695
22. Zhang G X, Huang Y Y, Zhu Y H, et al. Prospect of gas hydrate resources in the South China Sea. Mar. Geol. & Quaternary Geol. (in Chinese), 2002,22(1):75-81
23. Wu S, Zhang G, Huang Y, et al. Gas hydrate occurrence on the continental slope of the northern South China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2005,22:403-412