Gas hydrates, free gas distribution and fault pattern on the west Svalbard continental margin

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 666-684

  Madrussani, Gianni ^a   Rossi, Giuliana ^a   Camerlenghi, Angelo ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fracture and flow; Gas and hydrate systems; Seismic attenuation; Tomography

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FAULT GEOMETRY; FRACTURE FLOW; GAS HYDRATE; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MARINE SEDIMENT; P-WAVE; PERMEABILITY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 74549166069     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04425.x     Document Type: Article

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