Hydrate Ridge is an accretionary thrust ridge located on the lower slope of the central Cascadia convergent margin. Structural mapping based on two-dimensional and three-dimensional multichannel seismic reflection profiles and gridded bathymetry coupled with deep-towed sidescan sonar data and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) biostratigraphy suggests that seafloor fluid venting patterns...
This paper presents a seismic sequence and structural analysis of a high-resolution three-dimensional seismic reflection survey that was acquired in June 2000 in preparation for Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 204. The seismic data were correlated with coring and logging results from nine sites drilled in 2002 during Leg 204....
A 3D seismic volume was acquired summer 2000 over the southern end of Hydrate Ridge (FIR), an anomalously shallow ridge 100 km offshore Newport, Oregon. The survey followed a succession of scientific expeditions aimed at studying the gas hydrates present in the shallow subsurface that gave the name to the...
Log and core data document gas saturations as high as
90% in a coarse-grained turbidite sequence beneath the gas
hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) at south Hydrate Ridge, in the
Cascadia accretionary complex. The geometry of this gas-saturated
bed is defined by a strong, negative-polarity
reflection in 3D seismic data. Because...
Seismic data and seafloor samples indicate the presence of free gas, gas hydrate, and
fluid seeps south of the Gorda Escarpment, a topographic feature that marks the eastern
end of the Gorda/Pacific transform plate boundary southwest of Cape Mendocino,
California. In spite of high sedimentation rates and high biological productivity,...