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
Preface
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
‘Seabed fluid flow’ encompasses a wide range of fluids (gases and liquids) that pass from sediments to seawater, involving natural processes that modern science would pigeon-hole into a wide range of disciplines, mainly in the geosciences, biosciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, and ocean sciences; they also impinge on (or are affected by) human activities. With our background, it is inevitable that the most prominent fluid in this book is methane. There is a vast literature on hydrothermal vents, and a growing interest in submarine groundwater discharge with which we do not wish to compete. However, we recognise the importance of considering all forms of seabed fluid flow so that similarities and differences in the processes may be considered. We have attempted to assimilate all forms, manifestations, and consequences of seabed fluid flow of whatever origin.
It is impossible, in a single volume, to do justice to such a multidisciplinary subject. The pace of research has progressively increased since our own interests in pockmarks and seeps began. Of particular significance is the move of the petroleum industry from the continental shelves into the deeper waters of the continental slope and rise; this has rejuvenated research in deep-seabed processes, and has resulted in rethinking many old ideas not least because of the discovery of many deep-water features associated with seabed fluid flow.
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- Seabed Fluid FlowThe Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment, pp. xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007