Gas hydrate occurrence and Morpho-structures along Chilean margin

• Main Author: Vargas Cordero, Ivan De La Cruz
• Other Authors: Fanucci, Francesco, Tinivella, Umberta
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli studi di Trieste 2009
• Subjects: BSR; Chilean margin; geothermal gradient; gas hydrate; SCIENZE AMBIENTALI (AMBIENTE FISICO,MARINO E COSTIERO); GEO/10 GEOFISICA DELLA TERRA SOLIDA; Fernandez; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10077/3207

2007/2008 During the last decades, the scientific community spent many efforts to study the gas hydrates in oceanic and permafrost environments. In fact, the gas hydrate occurrence has a global significance because of the potential energy resource represented by the large amount of hydrocarbon trapp...