Natural Gas Hydrate

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Hydrate as a Material and its Discovery

   1. Introduction, Physical Properties, and Natural Occurrences of Hydrate

      • Robert E. Pellenbarg, Michael D. Max

      Pages 1-8

   2. Natural Gas Hydrate: Background and History of Discovery

      • Keith A. Kvenvolden

      Pages 9-16

3. Physical Character of Natural Gas Hydrate

   1. Practical Physical Chemistry and Empirical Predictions of Methane Hydrate Stability

      • Edward T. Peltzer, Peter G. Brewer

      Pages 17-28

   2. Thermal State of the Gas Hydrate Reservoir

      • Carolyn Ruppel

      Pages 29-42

4. Oceanic and Permafrost-Related Natural Gas Hydate

   1. Permafrost-Associated Gas Hydrate

      • Timothy S. Collett, Scott R. Dallimore

      Pages 43-60

   2. Oceanic Gas Hydrate

      • William P. Dillon, Michael D. Max

      Pages 61-76

5. Source of Methane and its Migration

   1. The Role of Methane Hydrate in Ocean Carbon Chemistry and Biogeochemical Cycling

      • Richard B. Coffin, Kenneth S. Grabowski, Jeffrey P. Chanton

      Pages 77-90

   2. Deep Biosphere: Source of Methane for Oceanic Hydrate

      • Peter Wellsbury, R. John Parkes

      Pages 91-104

   3. Movement and Accumulation of Methane in Marine Sediments: Relation to Gas Hydrate Systems

      • M. Ben Clennell, Alan Judd, Martin Hovland

      Pages 105-122

6. Major Hydrate-related Issues

   1. Natural Gas Hydrate as a Potential Energy Resource

      • Timothy S. Collett

      Pages 123-136

   2. Climatic Impact of Natural Gas Hydrate

      • Bilal U. Haq

      Pages 137-148

   3. Potential Role of Gas Hydrate Decomposition in Generating Submarine Slope Failures

      • Charles K. Pauli, William Ussler III, William P. Dillon

      Pages 149-156

7. Distribution of Natural Gas Hydrate

   1. The U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin; the Best-Known Gas Hydrate Locality

      • William P. Dillon, Michael D. Max

      Pages 157-170

   2. Gas Hydrate in the Arctic and Northern North Atlantic Oceans

      • Michael D. Max, Jürgen Mienert, Karin Andreassen, Christian Berndt

      Pages 171-182

   3. Cascadia Margin, Northeast Pacific Ocean: Hydrate Distribution from Geophysical Investigations

      • G. D. Spence, R. D. Hyndman, N. R. Chapman, M. Riedel, N. Edwards, J. Yuan

      Pages 183-198

   4. The Occurrence of BSRs on the Antarctic Margin

      • Emanuele Lodolo, Angelo Camerlenghi

      Pages 199-212

   5. Gas Hydrate Potential of the Indian Sector of the NE Arabian Sea and Northern Indian Ocean

      • Michael D. Max

      Pages 213-224

   6. Hydrate as a Future Energy Resource for Japan

      • Michael D. Max

      Pages 225-238

   7. A Note on Gas Hydrate in the Northern Sector of the South China Sea

      • Sheila L. McDonnell, Michael Czarnecki

      Pages 239-244

1. 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.

• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• marine
• hydrogeology

• Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C., USA

  Michael D. Max

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