Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the accompanying website
- List of maps on the accompanying website
- List of contributed presentations on the accompanying website
- 1 Introduction to seabed fluid flow
- 2 Pockmarks, shallow gas, and seeps: an initial appraisal
- 3 Seabed fluid flow around the world
- 4 The contexts of seabed fluid flow
- 5 The nature and origins of flowing fluids
- 6 Shallow gas and gas hydrates
- 7 Migration and seabed features
- 8 Seabed fluid flow and biology
- 9 Seabed fluid flow and mineral precipitation
- 10 Impacts on the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 11 Implications for man
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction to seabed fluid flow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the accompanying website
- List of maps on the accompanying website
- List of contributed presentations on the accompanying website
- 1 Introduction to seabed fluid flow
- 2 Pockmarks, shallow gas, and seeps: an initial appraisal
- 3 Seabed fluid flow around the world
- 4 The contexts of seabed fluid flow
- 5 The nature and origins of flowing fluids
- 6 Shallow gas and gas hydrates
- 7 Migration and seabed features
- 8 Seabed fluid flow and biology
- 9 Seabed fluid flow and mineral precipitation
- 10 Impacts on the hydrosphere and atmosphere
- 11 Implications for man
- References
- Index
Summary
Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e. with the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science.
Kuhn, 1970This chapter introduces the concept that seabed fluid flow is a widespread and important natural process. It has important consequences for subseabed and seabed geological features, and also for marine biological processes, and the composition of the oceans. Seabed fluid flow provides both hazards and benefits for human activities, and it is recognised that some sites are precious and need protection.
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- Seabed Fluid FlowThe Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007