Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence

TA Minshull, H Marín-Moreno, P Betlem, J Bialas… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Large national programs in the United States and several Asian countries have defined and
characterised their marine methane hydrate occurrences in some detail, but European …

Geological occurrence and accumulation mechanism of natural gas hydrates in the eastern Qiongdongnan Basin of the South China Sea: Insights from site GMGS5 …

J Liang, W Zhang, J Lu, J Wei, Z Kuang, Y He - Marine Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Seismic and logging while drilling (LWD) data, gas hydrate samples, and hydrate gas
geochemical testing results acquired during the GMGS5 expedition in 2018 have been used …

Methane seepage at Vestnesa Ridge (NW svalbard) since the last glacial maximum

A Schneider, G Panieri, A Lepland, C Consolaro… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Multiple proxies in the geological record offshore NW Svalbard track shallow subseafloor
diagenesis and seafloor methane seepage during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) extent …

Active gas venting through hydrate-bearing sediments on the Vestnesa Ridge, offshore W-Svalbard

S Bünz, S Polyanov, S Vadakkepuliyambatta… - Marine geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Gas hydrate systems offshore western Svalbard are extensive and include the whole
Vestnesa Ridge, an elongated sediment drift north of the Molloy Transform and just east of …

Marine baseline and monitoring strategies for carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS)

J Blackford, JM Bull, M Cevatoglu, D Connelly… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The QICS controlled release experiment demonstrates that leaks of carbon dioxide (CO 2)
gas can be detected by monitoring acoustic, geochemical and biological parameters within …

Role of tectonic stress in seepage evolution along the gas hydrate‐charged Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait

A Plaza‐Faverola, S Bünz, JE Johnson… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Methane expulsion from the world ocean floor is a broadly observed phenomenon known to
be episodic. Yet the processes that modulate seepage remain elusive. In the Arctic offshore …

Repeated fluid expulsion through sub-seabed chimneys offshore Norway in response to glacial cycles

A Plaza-Faverola, S Bünz, J Mienert - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Focused fluid flow through sub-seabed sediments is a common phenomenon on continental
margins worldwide. However, the governing controls and timing of this fluid release have …

Controls on the global distribution of contourite drifts: Insights from an eddy-resolving ocean model

AC Thran, A Dutkiewicz, P Spence… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Contourite drifts are anomalously high sediment accumulations that form due to reworking
by bottom currents. Due to the lack of a comprehensive contourite database, the link …

Thermogenic methane injection via bubble transport into the upper Arctic Ocean from the hydrate‐charged Vestnesa Ridge, Svalbard

AJ Smith, J Mienert, S Bünz… - Geochemistry …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We use new gas‐hydrate geochemistry analyses, echosounder data, and three‐
dimensional P‐Cable seismic data to study a gas‐hydrate and free‐gas system in 1200 m …

Spontaneous formation of fluid escape pipes from subsurface reservoirs

L Räss, NSC Simon, YY Podladchikov - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Ubiquitous observations of channelised fluid flow in the form of pipes or chimney-like
features in sedimentary sequences provide strong evidence for significant transient …