Sediment mounds and other sedimentary features related to hydrate occurrences in a columnar seismic blanking zone of the Ulleung Basin, East Sea, Korea

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1787-1800

  Chun, Jong Hwa ^a   Ryu, Byong Jae ^a   Son, Byeong Kook ^a   Kim, Ji Hoon ^a   Lee, Joo Yong ^a   Bahk, Jang Jun ^a   Kim, Hag Ju ^a   Woo, Kyung Sik ^b   Nehza, Odette ^a,c  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Columnar seismic blanking zone; East sea; Gas hydrate; Sediment mound; Ulleung basin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL MATS; BOTTOM CURRENT; EAST SEA; GAS BUBBLE; HEMIPELAGIC DEPOSITS; HIGH RESISTIVITY; HIGH SALINITY; HYDRATE FORMATION; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; MUDDY SEDIMENTS; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; PISTON CORES; REFLECTION SEISMIC; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SEISMIC BLANKING ZONES; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TWO-WAY TRAVELTIME; ULLEUNG BASIN; WATER DEPTH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ASSOCIATED GAS; BATHYMETRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; GASES; HYDRATION; LITHOLOGY; METHANE; MINERALS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

GAS HYDRATES;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GAS HYDRATE; OCEAN BASIN; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC ZONE;

KOREA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; ULLEUNG BASIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 82455167808     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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