Geological and glaciological controls of 21,700 active methane seeps in the northern Norwegian Barents sea

Due to tectonic uplift in the Cenozoic and numerous shelf-wide glaciations during the Quaternary, ∼1–2.5 km of sedimentary overburden has been eroded from the Barents Sea shelf, leading to the exhumation and partial uncapping of hydrocarbon accumulations. Widespread natural gas and oil leakage from...

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Published in:Frontiers in Earth Science
Main Authors: Pavel Serov, Karin Andreassen, Monica Winsborrow, Rune Mattingsdal, Henry Patton
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024
Subjects:
methane
hydrocarbons
seepage
Arctic
Barent sea
Science
Q
Barents Sea
Sentralbanken
Storbanken
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1404027
https://doaj.org/article/4bb57981fac446a19dfcbda5c77216ad

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