Gas hydrates that outcrop on the sea floor: stability models |
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Authors: | A. V. Egorov K. Crane P. R. Vogt A. N. Rozhkov P. P. Shirshov |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Science, 36, Nachimovskiy prospect, Moscow, Russia 117 218, RU;(2) Hunter College, CUNY, New York, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York, USA, US;(3) Marine Geoscience Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA, US;(4) Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia, RU |
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Abstract: | The detection of sea-floor gas hydrates (GHs) proves that they can coexist in contact with seawater. We calculate that sea-floor hydrates undergo rapid dissolution, yet they are maintained by the constant high rate of upward migration of gas-saturated waters. If upward migration originates from a point source, then the thickness of sea-floor hydrates varies with distance from the center of the upwelling (depending on heat flow). However, near-surface fracturing may control the actual points of exit onto the sea floor above. If gas migration rates decrease from the center of the mud volcano to its periphery, a concentric pattern in distribution of temperature, methane concentration, and GH contents can be described. |
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