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Single-channel seismic reflection profiles show evidence for areas of significant gas accumulation at the head of the Cape Fear Slide on the continental rise off North Carolina. Gas accumulation appears to occur beneath a gas hydrate seal in landward-dipping strata and in domed strata associated with diapirism. In addition, gas venting may have occurred near diapirs located at the head of the slide. 相似文献
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Bioerosion by chemosynthetic biological communities on Holocene submarine slide scars 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Geomorphic, stratigraphic, and faunal observations of submarine slide scars that occur along the flanks of Monterey Canyon in 2.0–2.5 km water depths were made to identify the processes that continue to alter the surface of a submarine landslide scar after the initial slope failure. Deep-sea chemosynthetic biological communities and small caves are common on the sediment-free surfaces of the slide scars, especially along the headwall. The chemosynthetic organisms observed on slide scars in Monterey Canyon undergo a faunal succession based in part on their ability to maintain their access to the redox boundaries in the sediment on which they depend on as an energy source. By burrowing into the seafloor, these organisms are able to follow the retreating redox boundaries as geochemical re-equilibration occurs on the sole of the slide. As these organisms dig into the seafloor on the footwall, they often generate small caves and weaken the remaining seafloor. While chemosynthetic biological communities are typically used as indicators of fluid flow, these communities may be supported by methane and hydrogen sulfide that are diffusing out of the fresh seafloor exposed at the sole of the slide by the slope failure event. If so, these chemosynthetic biological communities may simply mark sites of recent seafloor exhumation, and are not reliable fluid seepage indicators. 相似文献
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C. K. Paull W. Ussler H. G. Greene R. Keaten P. Mitts J. Barry 《Geo-Marine Letters》2003,22(4):227-232
A sediment gravity flow descended through the axis of Monterey Canyon on 20 December 2001 at 13:35 Pacific standard time.
The timing of this event is documented by a current-meter package which recorded an 11.9-dbar pressure increase in less than
10 min and was found 550 m down-canyon from its deployment site, buried completely within a >70-cm-thick gravity flow deposit.
This event is believed to have started in less than 290 m of water because an instrument at this location was also lost at
the same time. A 178-cm core collected after the event from the axis of the canyon at 1,297-m water depth contained fresh,
greenish, chlorophyll-rich organic material at 32-cm sub-bottom depth, suggesting the event extended to this water depth.
The only trigger identified for this mass movement event appears to be moderate sea and surf conditions. Thus, gravity flow
events of this magnitude do not require an exceptional triggering event. 相似文献
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C. K. Paull W. Ussler H. G. Greene R. Keaten P. Mitts J. Barry 《Geo-Marine Letters》2002,22(4):227-232
A sediment gravity flow descended through the axis of Monterey Canyon on 20 December 2001 at 13:35 Pacific standard time. The timing of this event is documented by a current-meter package which recorded an 11.9-dbar pressure increase in less than 10 min and was found 550 m down-canyon from its deployment site, buried completely within a >70-cm-thick gravity flow deposit. This event is believed to have started in less than 290 m of water because an instrument at this location was also lost at the same time. A 178-cm core collected after the event from the axis of the canyon at 1,297-m water depth contained fresh, greenish, chlorophyll-rich organic material at 32-cm sub-bottom depth, suggesting the event extended to this water depth. The only trigger identified for this mass movement event appears to be moderate sea and surf conditions. Thus, gravity flow events of this magnitude do not require an exceptional triggering event. 相似文献
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Adrian Spence David J. Mcnally Margaret V. McCaul Brett Paull 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2011,75(10):2571-2581
Soil microbial biomass is a primary source of soil organic carbon (SOC) and therefore plays a fundamental role in carbon and nitrogen cycling. However, little is known about the fate and transformations of microbial biomass in soil. Here we employ HR-MAS NMR spectroscopy to monitor 13C and 15N labeled soil microbial biomass and leachate degradation over time. As expected, there is a rapid loss of carbohydrate structures. However, diffusion edited HR-MAS NMR data reveals that macromolecular carbohydrates are more resistant to degradation and are found in the leachate. Aromatic components survive as dissolved species in the leachate while aliphatic components persist in both the biomass and leachate. Dissolved protein and peptidoglycan accumulate in the leachate and recalcitrant amide nitrogen and lipoprotein persists in both the degraded biomass and leachate. Cross-peaks that appear in 1H-15N HR-MAS NMR spectra after degradation suggest that specific peptides are either selectively preserved or used for the synthesis of unknown structures. The overall degradation pathways reported here are similar to that of decomposing plant material degraded under similar conditions suggesting that the difference between recalcitrant carbon from different sources is negligible after decomposition. 相似文献
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C. K. Paull W. Ussler III T. Lorenson W. Winters J. Dougherty 《Geo-Marine Letters》2005,25(5):273-280
Gas hydrates are common within near-seafloor sediments immediately surrounding fluid and gas venting sites on the continental
slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico. However, the distribution of gas hydrates within sediments away from the vents is poorly
documented, yet critical for gas hydrate assessments. Porewater chloride and sulfate concentrations, hydrocarbon gas compositions,
and geothermal gradients obtained during a porewater geochemical survey of the northern Gulf of Mexico suggest that the lack
of bottom simulating reflectors in gas-rich areas of the gulf may be the consequence of elevated porewater salinity, geothermal
gradients, and microbial gas compositions in sediments away from fault conduits. 相似文献
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Lonny Lundsten Charles K. Paull Kyra L. Schlining Mary McGann William Ussler 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2010,57(7):918-922
Video analysis of a whale-fall discovered in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off Vancouver Island at a depth of 1288 m during ROV diving operations has identified 26 taxa of deep-sea benthic organisms inhabiting the seafloor immediately surrounding remnants of the whale skeleton. A photo-mosaic derived from high-definition video provides a quantitative visual record of the present condition of the site, the species richness, and substrate preference. Only the skull and caudal vertebrae remains of this large whale skeleton are estimated to have been approximately 16.5 m in length. Most organisms identified near the whale-fall are common benthic deep-sea fauna, typical of this water depth and seafloor composition. Much of this species richness comes from sessile suspension feeding cnidarians attached to the numerous glacial dropstones found throughout the area rather than the presence of the whale skeleton. Seep and bone specialists are rare (4 taxa) and may be, in part, a remnant population from a sulphophilic stage of whale-fall decomposition. Evidence of past colonization by Osedax sp. is visible on the remaining bones and we conclude that rapid degradation of the missing bones has occurred at this site as has been observed at whale-falls off central California in Monterey Canyon. 相似文献