Research project

Dynamics of Gas Hydrates in Polar Marine Environments

Lead researcher:

Professor Tim Minshull
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Staff

Lead researcher

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: tmin@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Fluxes and fate of dissolved methane released at the seafloor at the landward limit of the gas hydrate stability zone offshore western Svalbard

Carolyn A. Graves, Lea Steinle, Gregor Rehder, Helge Niemann, Douglas P. Connelly, David Lowry, Rebecca E. Fisher, Andrew W. Stott, Heiko Sahling & Rachael H. James, 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120(9), 6185-6201

DOI: 10.1002/2015JC011084

Type: article

Seismic reflection imaging of mixing processes in Fram Strait

S. Sarkar, K.L. Sheen, D. Klaeschen, J.A. Brierley, T.A. Minshull, C. Berndt, R.W. Hobbs & A.C. Naveira Garabato, 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120(10), 6884-6896

DOI: 10.1002/2015JC011009

Type: article

Record of methane emissions from the West Svalbard continental margin during the last 23,500years revealed by ?13C of benthic foraminifera

Giuliana Panieri, Rachael H. James, Angelo Camerlenghi, Graham K. Westbrook, Chiara Consolaro, Isabel Cacho, Valentina Cesari & Cristina Sanchez Cervera, 2014, Global and Planetary Change, 122, 151-160

DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.08.014

Type: article

Corrigendum to "Switching of a paleo-ice stream in northwest Svalbard" [Quat. Sci. Rev. 30 (2011), 1710-1725]

Sudipta Sarkar, Christian Berndt, Anne Chabert, Douglas G. Masson, Timothy A. Minshull & Graham K. Westbrook, 2013, Quaternary Science Reviews, 67, p207

DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.027

Type: article

Methane release from warming-induced hydrate dissociation in the West Svalbard continental margin: timing, rates, and geological controls

K.E. Thatcher, G.K. Westbrook, S. Sarkar & T.A. Minshull, 2013, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(1), 22-38

DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009605

Type: article