Natural gas hydrate in oceanic and permafrost environments
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Abstract
THE BEGINNINGS OF HYDRATE RESEARCH Until very recently, our understanding of hydrate in the natural environment and its impact on seafloor stability, its importance as a sequester of methane, and its potential as an important mechanism in the Earth's climate change system, was masked by our lack of appreciation of the vastness of the hydrate resource. Only a few publications on naturally occurring hydrate existed prior to 1975. The first published reference to oceanic gas hydrate (Bryan and Markl, 1966) and the first publication in the scientific literature (Stoll, et a1., 1971) show how recently it has been since the topic of naturally occurring hydrate has been raised. Recently, however, the number of hydrate publications has increased substantially, reflecting increased research into hydrate topics and the initiation of funding to support the researchers. Awareness of the existence of naturally occurring gas hydrate now has spread beyond the few scientific enthusiasts who pursued knowledge about the elusive hydrate because of simple interest and lurking suspicions that hydrate would prove to be an important topic. The first national conference on gas hydrate in the U.S. was held as recently as April, 1991 at the U.S. National Center of the U.s. Geological Survey in Reston Virginia (Max et al., 1991). The meeting was co-hosted by the U.s. Geological Survey, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the U.S.
Table of Contents
Natural Gas Hydrate: Background and History of Discovery
Pages 9-16
Practical Physical Chemistry and Empirical Predictions of Methane Hydrate Stability
Pages 17-28
Thermal State of the Gas Hydrate Reservoir
Pages 29-42
Permafrost-Associated Gas Hydrate
Pages 43-60
Oceanic Gas Hydrate
Pages 61-76
The Role of Methane Hydrate in Ocean Carbon Chemistry and Biogeochemical Cycling
Pages 77-90
Deep Biosphere: Source of Methane for Oceanic Hydrate
Pages 91-104
Movement and Accumulation of Methane in Marine Sediments: Relation to Gas Hydrate Systems
Pages 105-122
Natural Gas Hydrate as a Potential Energy Resource
Pages 123-136
Climatic Impact of Natural Gas Hydrate
Pages 137-148
Potential Role of Gas Hydrate Decomposition in Generating Submarine Slope Failures
Pages 149-156
The U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin; the Best-Known Gas Hydrate Locality
Pages 157-170
Gas Hydrate in the Arctic and Northern North Atlantic Oceans
Pages 171-182
Cascadia Margin, Northeast Pacific Ocean: Hydrate Distribution from Geophysical Investigations
Pages 183-198
The Occurrence of BSRs on the Antarctic Margin
Pages 199-212
Gas Hydrate Potential of the Indian Sector of the NE Arabian Sea and Northern Indian Ocean
Pages 213-224
Hydrate as a Future Energy Resource for Japan
Pages 225-238
A Note on Gas Hydrate in the Northern Sector of the South China Sea
Pages 239-244
Introduction to Physical Properties and Elasticity Models
Pages 245-260
Geophysical Sensing and Hydrate
Pages 261-274
Seismic Methods for Detecting and Quantifying Marine Methane Hydrate/Free Gas Reservoirs
Pages 275-294
Ground Truth: In-Situ Properties of Hydrate
Pages 295-310
GHASTLI — Determining Physical Properties of Sediment Containing Natural and Laboratory-Formed Gas Hydrate
Pages 311-322
Laboratory synthesis of pure methane hydrate suitable for measurement of physical properties and decomposition behavior
Pages 323-348
Economic Perspective of Methane from Hydrate
Pages 349-360
Hydrate Resource, Methane Fuel, and a Gas-Based Economy?
Pages 361-370
Sea Floor Venting and Gas Hydrate Accumulation
Publication type | Book |
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Publication Subtype | Monograph |
Title | Natural gas hydrate in oceanic and permafrost environments |
Year Published | 2003 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Springer |
Description | 378 p. |
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