Focused fluid flow through the gas-hydrate stability zone on the Vestnesa Ridge, offshore W-svalbard

• Main Author: Aas, Cecilie
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 2014
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Petroleumsgeologi og -geofysikk: 464; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Petroleum geology and petroleum geophysics: 464; EOM-3901; Svalbard; Molloy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/6507

Abstract: Numerous unburied seafloor pockmarks are related to current methane-leakage at Vestnesa Ridge (~79° N), west of Svalbard. About 50 km long and 1-3 km wide, Vestnesa Ridge is a 1-2 km thick sediment drift to the north of the active Molloy transform – on the eastern spreading segment. With i...