The interaction of climate change and methane hydrates

CD Ruppel, JD Kessler - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gas hydrate, a frozen, naturally‐occurring, and highly‐concentrated form of methane,
sequesters significant carbon in the global system and is stable only over a range of low …

Seafloor oxygen consumption fuelled by methane from cold seeps

A Boetius, F Wenzhöfer - Nature Geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
The leakage of cold, methane-rich fluids from subsurface reservoirs to the sea floor at
specific sites on continental slopes, termed cold seeps, sustains some of the richest …

Fate of rising methane bubbles in stratified waters: How much methane reaches the atmosphere?

DF McGinnis, J Greinert, Y Artemov… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing concern about the transfer of methane originating from water bodies to the
atmosphere. Methane from sediments can reach the atmosphere directly via bubbles or …

Marine cold seeps and their manifestations: geological control, biogeochemical criteria and environmental conditions

E Suess - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2014 - Springer
Characteristics of cold seeps at different geologic settings are the subject of this review
primarily based on results of the Research Consortium SFB 574. Criteria are drawn from …

[BOOK][B] Methane gas hydrate: as a natural gas source

A Demirbas - 2010 - Springer
Gas hydrates, potentially one of the most important energy resources for the future. Methane
gas hydrates are increasingly considered a potential energy resource. Enormous reserves …

Magnitude and oxidation potential of hydrocarbon gases released from the BP oil well blowout

SB Joye, IR MacDonald, I Leifer, V Asper - Nature Geoscience, 2011 - nature.com
The deep-sea hydrocarbon discharge resulting from the BP oil well blowout in the northern
Gulf of Mexico released large quantities of oil and gaseous hydrocarbons such as methane …

Postglacial response of Arctic Ocean gas hydrates to climatic amelioration

P Serov, S Vadakkepuliyambatta… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

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 …

Quantifying gas ebullition with echosounder: The role of methane transport by bubbles in a medium‐sized lake

I Ostrovsky, DF McGinnis, L Lapidus… - Limnology and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In lakes and reservoirs with variable water level, gas ebullition can play a substantial role in
methane transport in the water column and to the atmosphere. However, measuring …

An integrated view of the methane system in the pockmarks at Vestnesa Ridge, 79 N

G Panieri, S Bünz, DJ Fornari, J Escartin, P Serov… - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Vestnesa Ridge is a NW-SE trending,~ 100 km-long, 1–2 km-thick contourite
sediment section located in the Arctic Ocean, west of Svalbard, at 79° N. Pockmarks align …