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Research project

Dynamics of Gas Hydrates in Polar Marine Environments

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

Glacial stratigraphy, gas-escape features and ocean finestructures from multichannel high resolution seismic data offshore west Svalbard
2012
Type: thesis
Seismic evidence for shallow gas-escape features associated with a retreating gas hydrate zone offshore west Svalbard
Sudipta Sarkar, Christian Berndt, Timothy A. Minshull, Graham K. Westbrook, Dirk Klaeschen, Douglas G. Masson, Anne Chabert & Kate E. Thatcher, 2012, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117(B09102), 1-18
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB009126
Type: article
Arctic methane sources: Isotopic evidence for atmospheric inputs
R.E. Fisher, S. Sriskantharajah, D. Lowry, M. Lanoisellé, C.M.R. Fowler, R.H. James, O. Hermansen, C. Lund Myhre, A. Stohl, J. Greinert, P.B.R. Nisbet-Jones, J. Mienert & E.G. Nisbet, 2011, Geophysical Research Letters, 38(21), L21803
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049319
Type: article
Characterization of a stratigraphically constrained gas hydrate system along the western continental margin of Svalbard from ocean bottom seismometer data
Anne Chabert, Tim A. Minshull, Graham K. Westbrook, Christian Berndt, Kate E. Thatcher & Sudipta Sarkar, 2011, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(B12), B12102
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008211
Type: article
Escape of methane gas from the seabed along the West Spitsbergen continental margin
Graham K. Westbrook, Kate E. Thatcher, Eelco J. Rohling, Alexander M. Piotrowski, Heiko Pälike, Anne H. Osborne, Euan G. Nisbet, Tim A. Minshull, Mathias Lanoisellé, Rachael H. James, Veit Huhnerbach, Darryl Green, Rebecca E. Fisher, Anya J. Crocker, Anne Chabert, Clara Bolton, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller, Christian Berndt & Alfred Aquilina, 2009, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L15608
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039191
Type: article