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
5 - The nature and origins of flowing fluids
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2009
- 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
Given the immense amount of organic matter in the sediments of the Earth's crust, it is evident that the geological consequences of this subterranean generation of gas must also be immense.
H. Hedberg, 1974The fluids available to flow through the seabed include various types (liquid and gaseous, organic and inorganic) derived from microbiological and geological processes – some close to the seabed, some distant both in space and time. To provide a foundation for subsequent chapters in which we look at the fate of these fluids, this chapter provides a brief review of the nature and origins of the fluids, and identifies some areas where controversy still persists.
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- Seabed Fluid FlowThe Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment, pp. 144 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007