Methane-generated(?) pockmarks on young, thickly sedimented oceanic crust in the Arctic: Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait

P. R. Vogt; K. Crane; E. Sundvor; M. D. Max; S. L. Pfirman

doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0255:MGPOYT>2.3.CO;2

Methane-generated(?) pockmarks on young, thickly sedimented oceanic crust in the Arctic: Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait

P. R. Vogt, K. Crane, E. Sundvor, M. D. Max, S. L. Pfirman

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The pockmarks (possibly also mud diapirs) may have been formed by evolution of methane generated by the decomposition of marine organic matter in the Vestnesa ridge sediment drift. The ridge may be underlain by an anticlinal carapace of methane-hydrate calculated to be 200-300 m thick, comparable to the hydrate thickness measured just to the south. The rising methane would collect in the ridge-crest trap, intermittently escaping to the sea floor. -from Authors

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	255-258
Number of pages	4
Journal	Geology
Volume	22
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0255:MGPOYT>2.3.CO;2
State	Published - Jan 1 1994
Externally published	Yes

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