Gas hydrate occurrence from pore water chlorinity and downhole logs in a transect across the northern Cascadia margin (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 311)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Malinverno, Alberto ^a   Kastner, M ^b   Torres, M E ^c   Wortmann, Uli G ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ADVECTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVERGENT MARGIN; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GAS HYDRATE; METHANE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; POREWATER; POROSITY; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

CASCADIA MARGIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 55949116935     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005702     Document Type: Article

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