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Research project

Dynamics of Gas Hydrates in Polar Marine Environments

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: tmin@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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