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Abiotic methane from ultraslow-spreading ridges can charge Arctic gas hydrates

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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/13244
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https://doi.org/10.1130/G36440.1
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2015-05
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Journal article
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Peer reviewed

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Johnson, Joel E; Mienert, Jurgen; Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil; Knies, Jochen; Bünz, Stefan; Andreassen, Karin; Ferré, Benedicte
Abstract
Biotic gas generation from the degradation of organic carbon in marine sediments supplies and maintains gas hydrates throughout the world’s oceans. In nascent, ultraslow-spreading ocean basins, methane generation can also be abiotic, occurring during the high-temperature (>200 °C) serpentinization of ultramafic rocks. Here, we report on the evolution of a growing Arctic gas- and gas hydrate–charged sediment drift on oceanic crust in eastern Fram Strait, a tectonically controlled, deep-water gateway between the subpolar North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Ultraslow-spreading ridges between northwest Svalbard and northeast Greenland permit the sustained interaction of a mid-ocean ridge transform fault and developing sediment drift, on both young (<10 Ma) and old (>10 Ma) oceanic crust, since the late Miocene. Geophysical data image the gas-charged drift and crustal structure and constrain the timing of a major 30 km lateral displacement of the drift across the Molloy transform fault. We describe the buildup of a 2 m.y., long-lived gas hydrate– and free gas–charged drift system on young oceanic crust that may be fed and maintained by a dominantly abiotic methane source. Ultraslow-spreading, sedimented ridge flanks represent a previously unrecognized carbon reservoir for abiotic methane that could supply and maintain deep-water methane hydrate systems throughout the Arctic.
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Accepted manuscript version. Published version available at https://doi.org/10.1130/G36440.1.
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Geological Society of America
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Johnson, J.E., Mienert, J., Plaza-Faverola, A., Vadakkepuliyambatta, S., Knies, J., Bünz, S., ... Ferré, B. (2015). Abiotic methane from ultraslow-spreading ridges can charge Arctic gas hydrates. Geology, 43(5), 371-374. https://doi.org/10.1130/G36440.1
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