Effect of a discrete three-phase methane equilibrium zone on the bottom-simulating reflection

• Main Author: Shushtarian, Arash
• Other Authors: Daigle, Hugh
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Methane hydrate; Methane; Hydrate; Gas hydrate; Bottom-simulating reflection; BSR; Synthetic seismograms; Seismic; Walker Ridge; Three-phase zone; Rock physics; Amplitude versus offset; AVO
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/46022; https://doi.org/10.15781/T20863B19

Marine gas hydrates are stable under conditions of low temperature and high pressure in the upper few hundreds of meters below the seafloor in a variety of geological setting. At a discrete horizon where thermodynamically favored phase switches from hydrate to gas, a characteristic seismic reflectio...