Research project

Dynamics of Gas Hydrates in Polar Marine Environments

Lead researchers:

Professor Tim Minshull
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Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Tim Minshull

Professor in Ocean & Earth Science

Research interests

Continental breakup and the onset of seafloor spreading
Methane hydrate beneath the seafloor and its role in the Earth system
Exploration geophysics: seismic and electromagnetic imaging

Connect with Tim

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Glacial stratigraphy, gas-escape features and ocean finestructures from multichannel high resolution seismic data offshore west Svalbard

2012

Type: thesis

Seismic evidence for shallow gas-escape features associated with a retreating gas hydrate zone offshore west Svalbard

Sudipta Sarkar, Christian Berndt, Timothy A. Minshull, Graham K. Westbrook, Dirk Klaeschen, Douglas G. Masson, Anne Chabert & Kate E. Thatcher, 2012, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117(B09102), 1-18

DOI: 10.1029/2011JB009126

Type: article

Arctic methane sources: Isotopic evidence for atmospheric inputs

R.E. Fisher, S. Sriskantharajah, D. Lowry, M. Lanoisellé, C.M.R. Fowler, R.H. James, O. Hermansen, C. Lund Myhre, A. Stohl, J. Greinert, P.B.R. Nisbet-Jones, J. Mienert & E.G. Nisbet, 2011, Geophysical Research Letters, 38(21), L21803

DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049319

Type: article

Characterization of a stratigraphically constrained gas hydrate system along the western continental margin of Svalbard from ocean bottom seismometer data

Anne Chabert, Tim A. Minshull, Graham K. Westbrook, Christian Berndt, Kate E. Thatcher & Sudipta Sarkar, 2011, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(B12), B12102

DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008211

Type: article

Escape of methane gas from the seabed along the West Spitsbergen continental margin

Graham K. Westbrook, Kate E. Thatcher, Eelco J. Rohling, Alexander M. Piotrowski, Heiko Pälike, Anne H. Osborne, Euan G. Nisbet, Tim A. Minshull, Mathias Lanoisellé, Rachael H. James, Veit Huhnerbach, Darryl Green, Rebecca E. Fisher, Anya J. Crocker, Anne Chabert, Clara Bolton, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller, Christian Berndt & Alfred Aquilina, 2009, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L15608

DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039191

Type: article