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Michael D. Max
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Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C., USA
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Hydrate as a Material and its Discovery
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- Robert E. Pellenbarg, Michael D. Max
Pages 1-8
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Physical Character of Natural Gas Hydrate
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- Edward T. Peltzer, Peter G. Brewer
Pages 17-28
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Oceanic and Permafrost-Related Natural Gas Hydate
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- Timothy S. Collett, Scott R. Dallimore
Pages 43-60
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- William P. Dillon, Michael D. Max
Pages 61-76
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Source of Methane and its Migration
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- Richard B. Coffin, Kenneth S. Grabowski, Jeffrey P. Chanton
Pages 77-90
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- Peter Wellsbury, R. John Parkes
Pages 91-104
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- M. Ben Clennell, Alan Judd, Martin Hovland
Pages 105-122
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Major Hydrate-related Issues
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- Charles K. Pauli, William Ussler III, William P. Dillon
Pages 149-156
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Distribution of Natural Gas Hydrate
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- William P. Dillon, Michael D. Max
Pages 157-170
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- Michael D. Max, Jürgen Mienert, Karin Andreassen, Christian Berndt
Pages 171-182
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- G. D. Spence, R. D. Hyndman, N. R. Chapman, M. Riedel, N. Edwards, J. Yuan
Pages 183-198
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- Emanuele Lodolo, Angelo Camerlenghi
Pages 199-212
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- Sheila L. McDonnell, Michael Czarnecki
Pages 239-244
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
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Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C., USA
Michael D. Max