Active methane seepage in the Southern Ocean, off the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia ...

• Main Authors: Römer, Miriam, Torres, Marta E, Kasten, Sabine, Kuhn, Gerhard, Graham, Alastair G C, Mau, Susan, Little, Crispin T S, Linse, Katrin, Pape, Thomas, Geprägs, Patrizia, Fischer, David, Wintersteller, Paul, Marcon, Yann, Rethemeyer, Janet, Bohrmann, Gerhard, Shipboard Scientific Party ANT-XXIX/4
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Antarc*; Antarctic; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.835302; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.835302

An extensive submarine cold-seep area was discovered on the northern shelf of South Georgia during R/V Polarstern cruise ANT-XXIX/4 in spring 2013. Hydroacoustic surveys documented the presence of 133 gas bubble emissions, which were restricted to glacially-formed fjords and troughs. Video-based sea...