The industrialization of the deep sea is expanding worldwide. Increasing oil and gas
exploration activities in the absence of sufficient baseline data in deep-sea ecosystems has …

Abstract The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem is a hotspot for biological diversity and supports a
number of industries, from tourism to fishery production to oil and gas exploration, that serve …

Authigenic carbonates recovered from two newly discovered active cold seeps on the
northwestern slope of the South China Sea have been studied using petrography …

Site F (also named Formosa ridge) represents the most vigorous cold seep on the northern
South China Sea continental slope. In order to constrain the fluid sources and intensities of …

Abstract The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil well blowout generated an enormous plume of
dispersed hydrocarbons that substantially altered the Gulf of Mexico's deep-sea microbial …

Seep carbonates represent excellent archives of seepage activities near seafloors. In order
to provide insights on sources of see** fluids, stable carbon and oxygen isotopes and …

The application of molybdenum (Mo) enrichment to sediments can potentially provide
unique constraints on the methane seepage dynamics at continental margins. We report …

Authigenic carbonates that form at marine hydrocarbon seeps provide a unique geological
archive of past local environmental conditions and pore fluid geochemistry. Recent work on …

Anaerobic oxidation of methane in anoxic sediments at cold seeps often leads to formation
of authigenic carbonates close to the seafloor along continental margins. Recent work …

Abstract The “Dolomite Problem” has been a controversy for over a century, owing to
massive assemblages of low-temperature dolomite in ancient rocks with little dolomite …