The strength and rheology of methane clathrate hydrate

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
• Main Authors: Durham, William B., Kirby, Stephen H., Stern, Laura A., Zhang, Wu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AGU (American Geophysical Union) 2003
• Subjects: Ice Point; Methane hydrate
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/42634/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/42634/1/Durham_et_al-2003-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2002JB001872

Methane clathrate hydrate (structure I) is found to be very strong, based on laboratory triaxial deformation experiments we have carried out on samples of synthetic, high‐purity, polycrystalline material. Samples were deformed in compressional creep tests (i.e., constant applied stress, σ), at condi...