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Natural Gas Hydrate

In Oceanic and Permafrost Environments

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Michael D. Max

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

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Part of the book series: Coastal Systems and Continental Margins (CSCM, volume 5)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Michael D. Max

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Natural Gas Hydrate

  • Book Subtitle: In Oceanic and Permafrost Environments

  • Editors: Michael D. Max

  • Series Title: Coastal Systems and Continental Margins

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4387-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6606-5Due: 30 November 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1362-1Published: 31 May 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4387-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1384-6434

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 415

  • Number of Illustrations: 107 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Oceanography, Hydrogeology, Geochemistry, Organic Chemistry

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