Marine cold seeps: background and recent advances

E Suess - Hydrocarbons, oils and lipids: Diversity, origin …, 2020 - Springer
Marine cold seeps are windows into different depth levels of the submerged geosphere.
Subduction zones and organic-rich passive margins host most of the world's cold seeps. The …

Postglacial response of Arctic Ocean gas hydrates to climatic amelioration

P Serov, S Vadakkepuliyambatta, J Mienert… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Seafloor methane release due to the thermal dissociation of gas hydrates is pervasive
across the continental margins of the Arctic Ocean. Furthermore, there is increasing …

Structural controls on widespread methane seeps in the back-arc basin of the Mid-Okinawa Trough

A Li, F Cai, N Wu, Q Li, G Yan, Y Sun, G Dong… - Ore Geology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Methane trapped in marine sediments surrounding continental margins can be driven by
tectonic stress to escape into the oceans. What geological processes control their spatial …

On the origin of multiple BSRs in the Danube deep-sea fan, Black Sea

T Zander, M Haeckel, C Berndt, WC Chi… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
High-resolution 2D seismic data reveal the character and distribution of up to four stacked
bottom simulating reflectors (BSR) within the channel-levee systems of the Danube deep …

High-resolution seismic characterization of the gas and gas hydrate system at Green Canyon 955, Gulf of Mexico, USA

SS Haines, PE Hart, TS Collett, W Shedd, M Frye… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments at lease block Green Canyon 955
(GC955) in the Gulf of Mexico include sand-rich strata with high saturations of gas hydrate; …

Microbial dominated Ca‐carbonates in a giant Pliocene cold‐seep system (Crotone Basin–South Italy)

E Perri, M Borrelli, U Heimhofer, B Umbro… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Pliocene cold‐seep carbonate of the Crotone Basin (South Italy) represents a key site
for dimension, outcrop** exposure and quality. These deposits form a large carbonate …

The impact of methane on microbial communities at marine arctic gas hydrate bearing sediment

V Carrier, MM Svenning, F Gründger… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cold seeps are characterized by high biomass, which is supported by the microbial
oxidation of the available methane by capable microorganisms. The carbon is subsequently …

Pockmarks in the witch ground basin, central North Sea

C Böttner, C Berndt, BTI Reinardy… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Marine sediments host large amounts of methane (CH4), which is a potent greenhouse gas.
Quantitative estimates for methane release from marine sediments are scarce, and a poorly …

Gas hydrate reservoirs and gas migration mechanisms in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico

JIT Hillman, AE Cook, H Daigle, M Nole… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
The interactions of microbial methane generation in fine-grained clay-rich sediments,
methane migration, and gas hydrate accumulation in coarse-grained, sand-rich sediments …

Marine‐controlled source electromagnetic study of methane seeps and gas hydrates at Opouawe Bank, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

K Schwalenberg, D Rippe, S Koch… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) data have been collected to investigate
methane seep sites and associated gas hydrate deposits at Opouawe Bank on the southern …