Gas escape features off New Zealand: Evidence of massive release of methane from hydrates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Davy, Bryan ^a   Pecher, Ingo ^a   Wood, Ray ^a   Carter, Lionel ^b   Gohl, Karsten ^c  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; GASES; HYDRATION; METHANE;

CHATHAM RISE; DEPTH RANGE; GAS RELEASE; HYDRATE DISSOCIATION; MULTI-BEAM; NATURAL SOURCES; NEW ZEALAND; SINGLE EVENT; SWATH BATHYMETRY; WATER DEPTH;

GAS HYDRATES;

GAS HYDRATE; GAS SEEPAGE; METHANE; SWATH BATHYMETRY; WATER DEPTH;

CHATHAM RISE; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78649240473     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045184     Document Type: Article

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