An effective medium inversion algorithm for gas hydrate quantification and its application to laboratory and borehole measurements of gas hydrate-bearing sediments

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Chand, Shyam, Minshull, Tim A., Priest, Jeff A., Best, Angus I., Clayton, Christopher R.I., Waite, William F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Canada; Mackenzie Delta
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/140566/; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03038.x

The presence of gas hydrate in marine sediments alters their physical properties. In some circumstances, gas hydrate may cement sediment grains together and dramatically increase the seismic P- and S-wave velocities of the composite medium. Hydrate may also form a load-bearing structure within the s...