Natural Gases in Marine Sediments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Isaac R. Kaplan

   Pages 1-10

3. Pathways and Environmental Requirements for Biogenic Gas Production in the Ocean

   • Byron J. Mechalas

   Pages 11-25

4. Depth Distributions of Gases in Shallow Water Sediments

   • William S. Reeburgh, David T. Heggie

   Pages 27-45

5. Methane and Carbon Dioxide in Coastal Marsh Sediments

   • Thomas Whelan III

   Pages 47-61

6. Hydrocarbon Gas (Methane) in Canned Deep Sea Drilling Project Core Samples

   • Richard D. McIver

   Pages 63-69

7. Dissolved Gases in Cariaco Trench Sediments: Anaerobic Diagenesis

   • Douglas E. Hammond

   Pages 71-89

8. Isotopic Analysis of Gas from the Cariaco Trench Sediments

   • Graeme L. Lyon

   Pages 91-97

9. The Origin and Distribution of Methane in Marine Sediments

   • George E. Claypool, I. R. Kaplan

   Pages 99-139

10. Geothermal Gases

    • Graeme L. Lyon

    Pages 141-150

11. The Nature and Occurrence of Clathrate Hydrates

    • Stanley L. Miller

    Pages 151-177

12. Review of Gas Hydrates with Implication for Ocean Sediments

    • J. H. Hand, D. L. Katz, V. K. Verma

    Pages 179-194

13. Occurrence of Natural Gas Hydrates in Sedimentary Basins

    • Brian Hitchon

    Pages 195-225

14. Experiments on Hydrocarbon Gas Hydrates in Unconsolidated Sand

    • P. E. Baker

    Pages 227-234

15. Effects of Gas Hydrates in Sediments

    • Robert D. Stoll

    Pages 235-248

16. Acoustics and Gas in Sediments: Applied Research Laboratories (ARL) Experience

    • Loyd D. Hampton, Aubrey L. Anderson

    Pages 249-273

17. Gas Bubbles and the Acoustically Impenetrable, or Turbid, Character of Some Estuarine Sediments

    • J. R. Schubel

    Pages 275-298

18. In Situ Indications of Gas Hydrate

    • George M. Bryan

    Pages 299-308

19. Pagoda Structures in Marine Sediments

    • K. O. Emery

    Pages 309-317

20. Back Matter

    Pages 319-324

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In July 1972, the U.S. Office of Naval Research identified several areas that it interpreted as being of interest to the U.S. Navy. Four of these research areas were then selected for their special importance in understanding physical processes on the ocean floor. In some of these, a great wealth of data has accumulated over the past two or three decades, but controversy exists in the interpretation of the results. In others, new techniques have re­ cently been devised that could lead to the collection and synthesis of new information. There was yet a third area in which little study had been undertaken and the results available appeared of great potential importance. The latter subject constitutes the title of this volume. To assess the information available and to facilitate plans for further research in the fields of interest that had been identified, the U.S. Office of Naval Research sponsored four symposia. The first was held in November 1972 at the University of California Con­ ference Center, Lake Arrowhead. The title of the symposium was "Natural Gases in Marine Sediments and Their Mode of Distribution". Twenty lectures were presented over a three-day period. All but two participants at this symposium subsequently submitted papers, which are published in this volume. In addition, Dr. K.O. Emery, who did not attend the symposium, supplied a manuscript on a topic most re­ levant to the subject matter discussed.

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• Department of Geology and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  Isaac R. Kaplan

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