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| Minshull, T. A.; Westbrook, Graham; Weitemeyer, K. A.; Sinha, M. C.; Goswami, B. K.; Marsset, Bruno. |
| Methane hydrate—a solid substance in which methane is trapped within ice‐like crystals—is stable at low temperatures and high pressures and may be destabilized by ocean warming on both geological and human time scales. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and methane released from hydrate provides a potential positive feedback mechanism in global climate change [e.g., Archer and Buffett, 2005]—in theory, the more methane is released by the hydrates, the warmer the climate gets, causing the ocean to warm and release more methane. However, methane escaping from the seabed is oxidized and dissolved in the ocean, and insufficient methane may reach the atmosphere to affect the climate significantly. Its importance for climate change therefore depends on... |
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Palavras-chave: Methane hydrate; Svalbard; Sea floor; Seismic; Electromagnetic; Arctic. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00451/56262/57832.pdf |
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| Ker, Stephan; Le Gonidec, Y.; Marsset, Bruno; Westbrook, Graham; Gibert, D.; Minshull, T. A.. |
| In the context of seismic imaging of gas/gas-hydrate systems, the fine-scale structure of subseabed gas-related reflections is assessed by taking advantage of the source signature of the deep-towed high-resolution SYSIF seismic device. We demonstrate the value of an original wavelet-based method and associated multiscale seismic attributes, applied to seismic data recently acquired on the western margin of the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. From analysis in the wavelet domain, we recognize two types of gas-related reflections associated with submetre-scale distribution of gas. We identify a thin gas-charged layer associated with an apparent normal polarity reflection, and we detect gas patches associated with a reverse-polarity bright spot with... |
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Palavras-chave: Wavelet transform; Gas and hydrate systems; Wave propagation; Acoustic properties; Arctic region. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00175/28602/27019.pdf |
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| Thatcher, K. E.; Westbrook, Graham; Sarkar, S.; Minshull, T. A.. |
| Hundreds of plumes of methane bubbles, first observed in 2008, emanate from an area of the seabed off West Svalbard that has become 1 degrees C warmer over the past 30 years. The distribution of the plumes, lying close to and upslope from the present upper limit of the methane hydrate stability zone, indicates that methane in the plumes could come from warming-induced hydrate dissociation, a process commonly invoked as contributing to rapid climate change. We used numerical modeling to investigate the response of hydrate beneath the seabed to changes in bottom-water temperature over periods of up to 1000 years B. P. The delay between the onset of warming and emission of gas, resulting from the time taken for thermal diffusion, hydrate dissociation, and gas... |
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Palavras-chave: Methane hydrate; Gas emission; Arctic warming; Geological controls; Thermal history. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00137/24779/22838.pdf |
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