Three decades after the discovery of cold seep systems, various sites of hydrocarbon
seepage have been found in the South China Sea (SCS). Over the past decade, these sites …

Substantial volumes of methane gas are trapped below the seafloor and in permafrost by an
ice-like solid called clathrate hydrate. Global estimates of the methane in clathrate hydrate …

Authigenic carbonates recovered from two newly discovered active cold seeps on the
northwestern slope of the South China Sea have been studied using petrography …

Direct measurement of decomposition rates of pure, polycrystalline methane hydrate reveals
a thermal regime where methane hydrate metastably “preserves” in bulk by as much as 75 K …

Authigenic carbonates are intercalated with massive gas hydrates in sediments of the
Cascadia margin. The deposits were recovered from the uppermost 50 cm of sediments on …

Large (about 5 per mil) millennial-scale benthic foraminiferal carbon isotopic oscillations in
the Santa Barbara Basin during the last 60,000 years reflect widespread shoaling of …

A pronounced negative carbon-isotope (δ13C) excursion of∼ 5–7‰(refs) indicates the
occurrence of a significant perturbation to the global carbon cycle during the Early Jurassic …

Methane hydrate dissociation has long been considered as a mechanism for global carbon
cycle perturbations, climate change and even mass extinctions in Earth's history. However …

Sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane (SO 4-AOM) in marine sediments commonly
leads to the precipitation of pyrite. It is, however, frequently challenging to unequivocally …

We developed a multicomponent, multiphase, fluid and heat flow model to describe hydrate
formation in marine sediments; the one‐and two‐dimensional model accounts for the …