Data Report: UT-GOM2-1 Sediment Grain Size Measurements at Site GC 955, Holes H002 and H005
Sediment grain size measurement in marine sediments provides a record of the stratigraphic variation in grain size and thus energy regime at the time of deposition. In addition to the grain size distribution, the degree of sediment sorting can also be calculated, and together they both influence primary sediment porosity and permeability. Here we present sediment grain size results from laser diffraction particle size analysis of samples from pressure cores collected during the 2017 UT GOM2-1 Expedition. We measured both bulk sediment and organic carbon-free sediment fractions for 46 samples and organic carbon-free sediment for 5 samples at Site GC 955, Holes H002 and H005. Differences between the bulk sediment and organic carbon-free fractions reflect the relative amount and size fraction of the organic carbon. The sample results presented here represent the grain size variation of the host lithology across the Green Canyon (GC) 955 gas hydrate reservoir.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States); Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States); Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States); US Geological Survey, Boulder, CO (United States); Geotek Coring Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (United States); Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Washington, DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM), Acquisition and Project Management; USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FE0023919
- OSTI ID:
- 1823030
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-UT-0023919-UTGOM2-1-008; UT-GOM2-1
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: UT-GOM2-1 Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition Data Directory http://www-udc.ig.utexas.edu/gom2/
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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