Preface
Michael D. Max ................................................. xi
Part 1. Hydrate as a Material and its Discovery
Chapter 1. Introduction, Physical Properties, and Natural
Occurrences of Hydrate
Robert E. Pellenbarg. & Michael D. Max .............. 1
Chapter 2. Natural Gas Hydrate: Introduction and History of
Discovery.
Keith A. Kvenvolden ................................. 9
Part 2. Physical Character of Natural Gas Hydrate
Chapter 3. Practical Physical Chemistry and Emperical
Predictions of Methane Hydrate Stability
Edward T. Peltzer & Peter G. Brewer ................ 17
Chapter 4. Thermal State of the Gas Hydrate Reservoir.
Carolyn Ruppel ..................................... 29
Part 3. Oceanic and Permafrost-Related Natural Gas Hydrate
Chapter 5. Permafrost-Associated Gas Hydrate
Timothy S. Collett & Scott R. Dallimore ........... 43
Chapter 6. Oceanic Gas Hydrate
William P. Dillon & Michael D. Max ................. 61
Part 4. Source of Methane and its Migration
Chapter 7. The Role of Methane Hydrate in Ocean Carbon
Chemistry and Biochemical Cycling.
Richard B. Coffin, Kenneth S. Grabowski &
Jeffrey P. Chanton ................................. 11
Chapter 8. Deep Biosphere: Source of Methane for Oceanic
Hydrate
Peter Wellsbury & R. John Parkes ................... 91
Chapter 9. Movement and Accumulation of Methane in Marine
Sediments: Relation to Gas Hydrate Systems
M. Ben Clennell, Alan Judd & Martin Hovland ....... 105
Part 5. Major Hydrate-related Issues
Chapter 10. Natural Gas Hydrate as a Potential Energy
Resource.
Timothy S. Collett ................................ 123
Chapter 11. Climate Impact of Natural Gas Hydrate
Bilal U. Haq ...................................... 137
Chapter 12. Potential Role of Gas Hydrate Decomposition in
Generating Submarine Slope Failures
Charles K. Paull, William Ussier III. &
William P. Dillon ................................. 149
Part 6. Distribution of Natural Gas Hydrate
Chapter 13. U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin; the Best-Known
Gas Hydrate Locality
William P. Dillon & Michael D. Max ................ 157
Chapter 14. Gas Hydrate in the Arctic and Northern North
Atlantic Oceans
Michael D. Max, Jürgen Mienert, Karin
Andreassen, & Christian Berndt .................... 171
Chapter 15. Cascadia Margin, Northeast Pacific Ocean:
Hydrate Distribution from Geophysical
Investigations
George D. Spence, Roy D. Hyndman N. Ross
Chapman, Michael Riedel, Nigel Edwards & Jian
Yuan .............................................. 183
Chapter 16. The Occurrence of BSRs on the Antarctic Margin
Emanuele Lodolo & Angelo Camerlenghi .............. 199
Chapter 17. Gas Hydrate Potential of the Indian Sector of
the NE Arabian Sea and Northern Indian Ocean
Michael D. Max .................................... 213
Chapter 18. Hydrate as a Future Energy Resource for Japan
Michael D. Max .................................... 225
Chapter 19. A Note on Gas Hydrate in the Northern Sector of
the South China Sea
Sheila McDonnell & Michael Czarnecki .............. 239
Part 7. How we see Hydrate
Chapter 20. Introduction to Physical Properties and
Elasticity Models
Jack Dvorkin, Michael B. Helgerud, William
F. Waite, Stephen H. Kirby and Amos Nur ........... 245
Chapter 21. Geophysical Sensing and Hydrate
Peter R. Miles .................................... 261
Chapter 22. Seismic Methods for Detecting and Quantifying
Marine Methane Hydrate/Free Gas Reservoirs
Ingo A. Pecher & W. Steven Holbrook ............... 275
Chapter 23. Ground truth: In-Situ Properties of Hydrate
David S. Goldberg, Timothy S. Collett & Roy
D. Hyndman ........................................ 295
Part 8. Laboratory Studies of Gas Hydrates
Chapter 24. GHASTLI - Determining Physical Properties of
Sediment Containing Natural and Laboratory-
Formed Gas Hydrate
William J. Winters, William P. Dillon, Ingo A.
Pecher & David H. Mason ........................... 311
Chapter 25. Laboratory synthesis of pure methane hydrate
suitable for measurement of physical properties
and decomposition behavior
Laura Stern, Steven H. Kirby, William B. Durham,
Susan Circone, & William F. Waite ................. 323
Part 9. The Promise of Hydrate
Chapter 26. Economic Perspective of Methane from Hydrate
Klaas J. Bil ...................................... 349
Chapter 27. Hydrate Resource, Methane Fuel, and a Gas-Based
Economy?
Michael D. Max .................................... 361
Additional Chapter Added for Second Printing
Chapter 28. Sea Floor Venting and Gas Hydrate Accumulation
Valery A. Soloviev & Leonid L. Mazurenko ....... Al-A-8
Editor's note: This chapter should be read with Part 4.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS ............................................. 371
SELECTED REFERENCES ........................................... 375
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS .......................................... 411
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