Journal
MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 9, Pages 952-959Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.01.015
Keywords
Methane hydrate; Seafloor seep
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- ONR program [61153N]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-A126-97FT3423]
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To determine the impact of seeps and focused flow on the occurrence of shallow gas hydrates, several seafloor mounds in the Atwater Valley lease area of the Gulf of Mexico were surveyed with a wide range of seismic frequencies. Seismic data were acquired with a deep-towed, Helmholz resonator source (220-820 Hz); a high-resolution, Generator-injector air-gun (30-300 Hz); and an industrial air-gun array (10-130 Hz). Each showed a significantly different response in this weakly reflective, highly faulted area. Seismic modeling and observations of reversed-polarity reflections and small scale diffractions are consistent with a model of methane transport dominated regionally by diffusion but punctuated by intense upward advection responsible for the bathymetric mounds, as well as likely advection along pervasive filamentous fractures away from the mounds. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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