[PDF] Top 20 Geological settings and gas hydrate distribution offshore Southwestern Taiwan

... - Offshore southwestern Taiwan, the Luzon accretionary wedge complex overrides the passive China Continental Slope in an incipient collision, and presents a rare opportunity to study ... See full document

... curve, and made corrections for sedimentation. Gas hydrate has been found in both the convergent accretionary wedges and the exten- sional passive continental margins around the ...world. ... See full document

... analysis, gas hydrate and free gas, reflection–refraction seismic, southwestern Taiwan Abstract In this study, we present the results of the combined analyses of ocean bottom ... See full document

... Chen and Tseng 2006), where mud volcanoes and/or gassy sediments are also ...The distribution of gassy sediments and submarine mud volcanoes is interwoven in our ...sediments and subma- ... See full document

... common and well-known from accreted sediments at plate colli- sion zones ...margin and the Nankai Trough), as well as from sedimentary se- quences at passive margins (Kvenvolden 1998; Sloan 1998; Kvenvolden ... See full document

... Free gas is present in the pore space beneath the BSR and generates a drop in P-wave velocity ...formation and dissociation of gas hydrates in both active and passive margin ... See full document

... acoustic and shear-waves velocity determination from a 1-D approach, the bias due to structural dips must be accounted for, either a-posteriori within the Dix law, or a-priori within a depth migra- tion ... See full document

... INTRODUCTION Gas hydrates, which are a kind of non-stoichiometric clathrate, are natural occurring sol- ids composed of water molecules forming a rigid lattice of cages with most of the cages each containing a ... See full document

... of gas hydrate presence and ex- tensive BSRs have been clearly observed in many parts of the continental margins around the South China Sea, especially in SW offshore ...Central ... See full document

... the southwestern coast of ...(BSRs) and mud diapirs are ...blocks, and strong di€raction patterns around the mud diapirs all suggest that gas hydrates exist in the deep-water ...the ... See full document

... 4.2 Effects of Sedimentation Since heat flow measurements are made by a Lister-type heat probe, which can only penetrate no deeper than 4.5 mbsf, the temperature gradient across the thin upper layer of sediments may be ... See full document

... the river mouth can be attributed to [I] dilution of coprostanol by uncontaminated sediment and/or sediment containing relatively lower levels of coprostanol, [2/ [r] ... See full document

... of Taiwan occurred as the Taiwan orogen migrated westward towards the stable Chinese margin and transported syn- tectonic sediment to the deep marine under-filled foreland basin offshore SW ... See full document

... southern Taiwan is pigfarming along the Kaoping River; some two million animals are being raised along the river ...treated and untreated, are discharged directly into the river and eventually ... See full document

... Kueishantao and other fluid samples from I-Lan Plain, the land area closest to the Kueishantao and also the southernmost part of the Okinawa Trough, show a significant excess of 3 He compositions as ... See full document

... reflection, southwestern Taiwan, swath bathymetry Abstract Swath bathymetry data and seismic reflection profiles have been used to investigate details of the deformation pattern in the area offshore ... See full document

... The NE-SW trending Chinese continental margin blocks the westward advance of the growing accretionary wedge, forces the NW-SE trending ramp anticlines gradually tuming into [r] ... See full document

... Off southwestern Taiwan, the broad Kaoping Slope is the major submarine topographic ...southeastern Taiwan, the forearc region of the Luzon Arc has been deformed into N-S trending ridges and ... See full document

... 0.02) and had a lower BMI (P = ...patients and controls were similar with regard to age, gender, smoking and alcohol ...SMI, and CAE, men had a higher risk of skin cancer (OR, ...SMI ... See full document

... width, and gap distance of these strips were set at 20, 10, and ...wafer and put in an oven to be thermally cured at 65°C for 4 ...mold and PET film, followed by UV exposure at 1 J/cm 2 to ... See full document