Three decades after the discovery of cold seep systems, various sites of hydrocarbon
seepage have been found in the South China Sea (SCS). Over the past decade, these sites …

Marine authigenic carbonates form shallow-water microbialites, mud mounds, and
hydrocarbon-seep deposits and contain appreciable amounts of trace elements that yield …

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

Ancient methane-seep carbonates are geological archives of environmental conditions and
record past microbial activity. To better understand the information stored in this archive, a …

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 …

This chapter summarizes information about ancient hydrocarbon seeps from around the
world. The information is organized into two tables, one comprising both Americas and …

A fundamental geochemical process operating at methane seeps is the anaerobic oxidation
of methane (AOM) by which methane is oxidized and sulfate is reduced. This process takes …

Hydrocarbon seeps harbor copious chemosynthesis-dependent life, the traces of which are
preserved in the fossil record within authigenic carbonates. These environments are mostly …

During the Cretaceous major episodes of oceanic anoxic conditions triggered large scale
deposition of marine black shales rich in organic carbon. Several oceanic anoxic events …

In part composed of Mg calcite and dolomite with a nearly continuous spectrum of MgCO3
contents, carbonates forming at marine methane seeps are ideal candidates to study the …