Evidence for gas hydrate occurrences in the Canadian Arctic Beaufort Sea within permafrost-associated shelf and deep-water marine environments

• Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology
• Main Authors: Riedel, Michael, Brent, T., Taylor, G., Taylor, A. E., Hong, J. K., Jin, Y. K., Dallimore, S. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Mackenzie Delta; Beaufort Sea; permafrost; wedge*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/35477/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/35477/7/Riedel.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.12.027

The presence of a wedge of offshore permafrost on the shelf of the Canadian Beaufort Sea has been previously recognized and the consequence of a prolonged occurrence of such permafrost is the possibility of an underlying gas hydrate regime. We present the first evidence for wide-spread occurrences o...