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Title: Sampling the marine gas-hydrate reservoir: Assessing the methane inventory, internal dynamics, and potential of methane discharges to the atmosphere. Final progress report

Abstract

The status of the pore water and sediment core analysis of the surface sediments that overlie a major gas-hydrate field on the Carolina Continental Rise and Blake Ridge is reported here. Funding from NIGEC`s southern regional center provided support for a cruise of the RV Cape Hatteras in September 1992 (CH-11-92) on which 20 piston cores were taken. However, over the last 18 months we have had the opportunity to collect an additional 35 piston cores in this region, in part through the assistance of another DOE funded project that is being run by the USGS. At this date, we have pore water data from 55 piston cores which gives us both a regional and a site-specific insight into the processes in this region. It is our intention to combine the results of all these cores to arrive at a unified understanding of the processes acting on the continental margin which influence gas-hydrate formation and distribution. Some of the highlights of this work and some of accomplishments of this project to-date are outlined.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
California Univ., Davis, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10184884
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/61010-T11
ON: DE93040797
DOE Contract Number:  
FC03-90ER61010
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 27 Aug 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
03 NATURAL GAS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; NATURAL GAS HYDRATE DEPOSITS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; PROGRESS REPORT; NORTH CAROLINA; METHANE; SEDIMENTS; GAS HYDRATES; DRILL CORES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; BIOSYNTHESIS; METHANOGENIC BACTERIA; 030200; RESERVES, GEOLOGY, AND EXPLORATION

Citation Formats

Paull, C. Sampling the marine gas-hydrate reservoir: Assessing the methane inventory, internal dynamics, and potential of methane discharges to the atmosphere. Final progress report. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10184884.
Paull, C. Sampling the marine gas-hydrate reservoir: Assessing the methane inventory, internal dynamics, and potential of methane discharges to the atmosphere. Final progress report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10184884
Paull, C. 1993. "Sampling the marine gas-hydrate reservoir: Assessing the methane inventory, internal dynamics, and potential of methane discharges to the atmosphere. Final progress report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10184884. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10184884.
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title = {Sampling the marine gas-hydrate reservoir: Assessing the methane inventory, internal dynamics, and potential of methane discharges to the atmosphere. Final progress report},
author = {Paull, C},
abstractNote = {The status of the pore water and sediment core analysis of the surface sediments that overlie a major gas-hydrate field on the Carolina Continental Rise and Blake Ridge is reported here. Funding from NIGEC`s southern regional center provided support for a cruise of the RV Cape Hatteras in September 1992 (CH-11-92) on which 20 piston cores were taken. However, over the last 18 months we have had the opportunity to collect an additional 35 piston cores in this region, in part through the assistance of another DOE funded project that is being run by the USGS. At this date, we have pore water data from 55 piston cores which gives us both a regional and a site-specific insight into the processes in this region. It is our intention to combine the results of all these cores to arrive at a unified understanding of the processes acting on the continental margin which influence gas-hydrate formation and distribution. Some of the highlights of this work and some of accomplishments of this project to-date are outlined.},
doi = {10.2172/10184884},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10184884}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Fri Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
}