Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the accompanying website
- List of maps on the accompanying website
- List of contributed presentations on the accompanying website
- 1 Introduction to seabed fluid flow
- 2 Pockmarks, shallow gas, and seeps: an initial appraisal
- 3 Seabed fluid flow around the world
- 4 The contexts of seabed fluid flow
- 5 The nature and origins of flowing fluids
- 6 Shallow gas and gas hydrates
- 7 Migration and seabed features
- 8 Seabed fluid flow and biology
- 9 Seabed fluid flow and mineral precipitation
- 10 Impacts on the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 11 Implications for man
- References
- Index
3 - Seabed fluid flow around the world
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the accompanying website
- List of maps on the accompanying website
- List of contributed presentations on the accompanying website
- 1 Introduction to seabed fluid flow
- 2 Pockmarks, shallow gas, and seeps: an initial appraisal
- 3 Seabed fluid flow around the world
- 4 The contexts of seabed fluid flow
- 5 The nature and origins of flowing fluids
- 6 Shallow gas and gas hydrates
- 7 Migration and seabed features
- 8 Seabed fluid flow and biology
- 9 Seabed fluid flow and mineral precipitation
- 10 Impacts on the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 11 Implications for man
- References
- Index
Summary
The development of an observational science like geology depends upon the personal experience of individual workers. I suggest that, with certain reservations, the best geologist is he who has seen the most rocks.
H. H. ReadIt is impossible to review all the data, reports, and publications of examples of seabed fluid flow. This chapter, organised as a round-the-world tour, comprises descriptions of examples of features associated with seabed fluid flow: pockmarks, seeps, mud volcanoes, and gas hydrates. The chapter provides the basic information required to undertake more analytical studies of these features, the processes that are responsible for them, and their implications.
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- Seabed Fluid FlowThe Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment, pp. 45 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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