Evidence for faulting related to dissociation of gas hydrate and release of methane off the southeastern United States
Geological Society Special Publication
By: William P. Dillon, W. W. Danforth, D. R. Hutchinson, R.M. Drury, M.H. Taylor, and J.S. Booth
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Abstract
This paper is part of the special publication Gas hydrates: relevance to world margin stability and climatic change (eds J.P. Henriet and J. Mienert). An irregular, faulted, collapse depression about 38 x 18 km in extent is located on the crest of the Blake Ridge offshore from the south- eastern United States. Faults disrupt the sea floor and terminate or sole out about 40-500 m below the sea floor at the base of the gas hydrate stable zone, which is identified from the location of the bottom simulating reflection (BSR). Normal faults are common but reverse faults and folds also are widespread. Folds commonly convert upward into faults. Sediment diapirs and deposits of sediments that were erupted onto the sea floor are also present. Sea-floor depressions at faults may represent locations of liquid/gas vents. The collapse was probably caused by overpressures and by the decoupling of the overlying sediments by gassy muds that existed just beneath the zone of gas hydrate stability.
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Dillon, W.P., Danforth, W.W., Hutchinson, D.R., Drury, R., Taylor, M., Booth, J., 1998, Evidence for faulting related to dissociation of gas hydrate and release of methane off the southeastern United States: Geological Society Special Publication, no. 137, p. 293-302, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.137.01.23.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Evidence for faulting related to dissociation of gas hydrate and release of methane off the southeastern United States |
| Series title | Geological Society Special Publication |
| DOI | 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.137.01.23 |
| Issue | 137 |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Contributing office(s) | Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| Description | 10 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Geological Society Special Publication |
| First page | 293 |
| Last page | 302 |
| Country | United States |
| Other Geospatial | Blake Ridge |