OS53B:
Naturally Occurring Gas Hydrates IV Posters

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Session ID#: 31065

Session Description:
Naturally occurring methane (and occasionally, carbon dioxide and higher hydrocarbon) hydrate forms at some of the most intriguing, dynamic, and remote locations on our planet. Evidence of gas hydrate continues to be found on the continental slopes of the world’s ocean margins in areas of focused flow; e.g., cold seeps, and extensive, pore-filling, sub-seafloor reservoirs. Fluid flux, lithology, permeability, heat flux, and gas concentration play key roles in the emplacement of gas hydrate, but these factors remain insufficiently understood. Geophysical studies, borehole data and core analysis, laboratory studies, and numerical modelling have all contributed to our growing understanding of the dynamics of naturally occurring gas hydrate systems. Nonetheless, considerable uncertainty remains regarding the quantification of gas hydrate accumulations and associated fluid flow, as well as the specific factors controlling gas hydrate occurrence and saturation.
For this session, we encourage contributions presenting the results of theoretical, laboratory or field data analyses.
Primary Convener:  Seth S Haines, U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States
Convener:  Timothy S Collett, USGS Central Energy Resource Science Center, Denver, United States
Chairs:  Seth S Haines, U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States and Jeen-Shang Lin, University of Pittsburgh, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Seth S Haines, U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0466 Modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
3004 Gas and hydrate systems [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
5114 Permeability and porosity [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Joint Measurements Of Acoustic And Mechanical Properties For Methane Hydrate-Bearing Unconsolidated Sediments Synthesized In Laboratory (219271)
Zhiqiang Yang, Peking University, Beijing, China and Tao He, Beijing International Center for Gas Hydrate, Peking University, Beijing, China
Masuda's Sandstone Core Hydrate Dissociation Experiment Revisited (232050)
Jack Spendlove Hardwick, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom and Simon Mathias, Durham University, Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
Micromechanical investigation of sand migration in gas hydrate-bearing sediments (296854)
Shun Uchida, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Troy, NY, United States, Assaf Klar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Haifa, Israel and Eitan Cohen, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Impacts of variability in geomechanical properties on hydrate bearing sediment responses (258572)
Jeen-Shang Lin, University of Pittsburgh, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States, Shun Uchida, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Troy, NY, United States, Jeong Hoon Choi, AECOM, Morgantown, WV, United States and Yongkoo Seol, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Morgantown, United States
Hydrate-CASM for modeling Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sediments (223483)
Maria De La Fuente Ruiz, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Jean Vaunat, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences, Barcelona, Spain and Hector Marin Moreno, NOCS (University of Southampt), Southampton, United Kingdom
Spatial and temporal dependencies of structure II to structure I methane hydrate transformation in porous media under moderate pressure and temperature conditions (297651)
Tiannong Dong1, Jung-Fu Lin2, Jesse T Gu2, Peter J Polito3, Joshua O'Connell4 and Peter B Flemings5, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (4)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (5)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
Equivalent formation strength as a proxy tool for exploring the existence and distribution of gas hydrates (270713)
Yohei Hamada, JAMSTEC, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Nankoku, Japan, Yasuhiro Yamada, JAMSTEC, ODS, Kanagawa, Japan, Yoshinori Sanada, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, Yasuyuki Nakamura, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Yukari Nakasa Kido, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan, Kyaw Moe, CDEX, Yokohama, Japan and NGHP exp. 02 Scientific Party
Baseline seismic survey for the 2nd offshore methane hydrate production test in the Eastern Nankai Trough (209721)
Yosuke Teranishi1, Takao Inamori2, Toshiaki Kobayashi3, Tetsuya Fujii4, Tatsuo Saeki4, Hiroo Takahashi5 and Fumihide Kobayashi6, (1)JGI, Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN, (2)JGI, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, (3)Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Chiba, Japan, (4)JOGMEC Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Chiba, Japan, (5)OCC Corporation, Yokohama, Japan, (6)Kokusai Cable Ship Co., Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
Characterization of methane-hydrate formation inferred from insitu Vp-density relationship for hydrate-bearing sediment cores obtained off the eastern coast of India (268165)
Masataka Kinoshita1, Yohei Hamada2, Takehiro Hirose2, Yasuhiro Yamada3 and NGHP02 Scientce Party, (1)The University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Nankoku, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC, ODS, Kanagawa, Japan
A Long-Term Geothermal Observatory Spanning Subseafloor Gas Hydrates in IODP Hole U1364A, Cascadia Accretionary Prism (255717)
Keir Becker1, Earl Davis2, Martin Heesemann3, Jeffrey Joseph McGuire4, John A Collins4, Jeff K. O'Brien5 and Keith von der Heydt4, (1)University of Miami - RSMAES, Miami, United States, (2)Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, (3)University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
Extreme Morphologic and Venting Changes in Methane Seeps at Southern Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin (296570)
Katharine Bigham1, Deborah S Kelley2, Evan A Solomon3 and John R Delaney1, (1)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, (2)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Univ Washington, Seattle, United States
Along – Strike Analysis of Contemporary Ocean Temperature Change on the Cascadia Margin and Implications to Upper Slope Hydrate Instability (245253)
Benjamin J Phrampus, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Robert N Harris, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Anne M Trehu, Oregon State Univ, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Robert W Embley, Oregon State University, CIMRS, Corvallis, OR, United States and Susan G Merle, Oregon State University, Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystem and Resource Studies, Newport, United States
Estimating Global Seafloor Total Organic Carbon Using a Machine Learning Technique and Its Relevance to Methane Hydrates (243771)
Taylor Runyan Lee, US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Washington, DC, United States, Warren T Wood, US Naval Research Laboratory, Geology and Geophysics, Washington, DC, United States and Jason Dale, US Naval Research Lab, Geosciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Focused Fluid Flow along Convergent Plate Boundaries - Deriving Flow Rates along Faults from Local Upwarping of the Base of the Gas Hydrate Stability Zone (250552)
Pascal Kunath, IONTU Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Wu-Cheng Chi, Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan and Char-Shine Liu, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Seismic Characterization of the Terrebonne Mini-basin, a Hydrate Rich Depositional System in the Gulf of Mexico (282659)
Peace Chinazo Eze1, Laura N Dafov2, Seth S Haines3, Stephan A Graham4, Timothy McHargue2 and Allegra Hosford Scheirer4, (1)University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Do Pleistocene Glacial-Interglacial Cycles Control Methane Hydrate Formation? An Example from Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico (241760)
Bar Oryan1, Alberto Malinverno2, David Goldberg3 and Will Fortin2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Mineralogy of Gas Hydrate Bearing Sediment in Green Canyon Block 955 Northern Gulf of Mexico (246722)
Ryan Heber1, Nicole Kinash1, Ann Cook2, Derek Sawyer3, Julie Sheets4, Joel E Johnson5 and UT-GOM2-01 Scientists , (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)OSU Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Earth Science, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States
Recovery and Lithologic Analysis of Sediment from Hole UT-GOM2-1-H002, Green Canyon 955, Northern Gulf of Mexico (253649)
Nicole Kinash1, Ann Cook2, Derek Sawyer3, Ryan Heber1 and UT-GOM2-01 Scientists, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)OSU Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Earth Science, Columbus, OH, United States
Sedimentological Characterization of a Deepwater Methane Hydrate Reservoir in Green Canyon 955, Northern Gulf of Mexico (232984)
Kevin Meazell, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences & Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Peter B Flemings, The University of Texas at Austin, The Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States and UT-GOM2-1 Science Party
3D Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of Gas Hydrate Bearing Turbidite Channel-Overbank System in Northern Gulf of Mexico (287954)
Manasij Santra1, Peter B Flemings2, Erik Scott1, Kevin Meazell3, Ethan G Petrou1 and Expedition UT-GOM2-1 Scientists , (1)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences & Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States

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