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Cryosphere-controlled methane release throughout the last glacial cycle
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2018-12-04)<p>The cryosphere of Arctic regions is undergoing rapid change due to century-scale global warming superimposed on millennial-scale natural climatic perturbations that started at the end of the last glacial cycle approximately 20,000 years ago [Slaymaker and Kelly, 2009]. The cryosphere refers to areas where low temperatures freeze water and form ice in the ocean (sea ice), on land (glaciers, ... -
GEO-3144/8144 Teaching Cruise: Geologically controlled hydrocarbon seepage in Hopendjupet and the wider Barents Sea
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2022-11-18)The CAGE22-6 cruise on-board R/V Helmer Hanssen hosted UiT´s Arctic Marine Geology and Geophysics (GEO-8144 and GEO-3144) field course for PhD and Master students, and was carried out in collaboration with NPD – the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and the INTPART project HOTMUD based at Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) the University of Oslo. The cruise was also a part of the UNESCO ... -
Geological controls of giant crater development on the Arctic seafloor
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-21)Active methane seepage occurs congruent with a high density of up to 1 km-wide and 35 m deep seafloor craters (>100 craters within 700 km<sup>2</sup> area) within lithified sedimentary rocks in the northern Barents Sea. The crater origin has been hypothesized to be related to rapid gas hydrate dissociation and methane release around 15–12 ka BP, but the geological setting that enabled and possibly ... -
Geological controls on fluid flow and gas hydrate pingo development on the Barents Sea margin
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-16)In 2014, the discovery of seafloor mounds leaking methane gas into the water column in the northwestern Barents Sea became the first to document the existence of non‐permafrost related gas hydrate pingos (GHP) on the Eurasian Arctic shelf. The discovered site is given attention because the gas hydrates occur close to the upper limit of the gas hydrate stability, thus may be vulnerable to climatic ... -
Geophysical and geochemical controls on the megafaunal community of a high Arctic cold seep
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-25)Cold-seep megafaunal communities around gas hydrate mounds (pingos) in the western Barents Sea (76°N, 16°E, ∼ 400 m depth) were investigated with high-resolution, geographically referenced images acquired with an ROV and towed camera. Four pingos associated with seabed methane release hosted diverse biological communities of mainly nonseep (background) species including commercially important fish ... -
Hydrocarbon leakage driven by quaternary glaciations in the Barents Sea based on 2D basin and petroleum system modeling
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-25)The Barents Sea has experienced intense erosion throughout the Cenozoic due to uplift and repeated episodes of glaciation. This, in turn, has driven large pressure and temperature fluctuations in the sediment substrate along with rearrangement of thermogenic oil and gas accumulations. As a result, some hydrocarbon fields have relatively shallow depths, and natural gas release is widespread. This ... -
An integrated view of the methane system in the pockmarks at Vestnesa Ridge, 79°N
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-08)The Vestnesa Ridge is a NW-SE trending, ~ 100 km-long, 1–2 km-thick contourite sediment section located in the Arctic Ocean, west of Svalbard, at 79°N. Pockmarks align along the ridge summit at water depths of ~ 1200 m; they are ~ 700 m in diameter and ~ 10 m deep relative to the surrounding seafloor. Observations of methane seepage in this area have been reported since 2008. Here we summarize and ... -
Methane release from pingo-like features across the South Kara Sea shelf, an area of thawing offshore permafrost
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-16)The Holocene marine transgression starting at ~19 ka flooded the Arctic shelves driving extensive thawing of terrestrial permafrost. It thereby promoted methanogenesis within sediments, the dissociation of gas hydrates, and the release of formerly trapped gas, with the accumulation in pressure of released methane eventually triggering blowouts through weakened zones in the overlying and thinned ... -
Modeling the evolution of climate-sensitive Arctic subsea permafrost in regions of extensive gas expulsion at the West Yamal shelf
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-10-01)Thawing subsea permafrost controls methane release from the Russian Arctic shelf having a considerable impact on the climate-sensitive Arctic environment. Expulsions of methane from shallow Russian Arctic shelf areas may continue to rise in response to intense degradation of relict subsea permafrost. Here we show modeling of the permafrost evolution from the Late Pleistocene to present time at the ... -
Offshore permafrost decay and massive seabed methane escape in water depths >20 m at the South Kara Sea shelf
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013-07-14)Since the Last Glacial Maximum (~19 ka), coastal inundation from sea-level rise has been thawing thick subsea permafrost across the Arctic. Although subsea permafrost has been mapped on several Arctic continental shelves, permafrost distribution in the South Kara Sea and the extent to which it is acting as an impermeable seal to seabed methane escape remains poorly understood. Here we use >1300 km ... -
Physical controls of dynamics of methane venting from a shallow seep area west of Svalbard
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-06)We investigate methane seepage on the shallow shelf west of Svalbard during three consecutive years, using discrete sampling of the water column, echosounder-based gas flux estimates, water mass properties, and numerical dispersion modelling. The results reveal three distinct hydrographic conditions in spring and summer, showing that the methane content in the water column is controlled by a combination ... -
Postglacial response of Arctic Ocean gas hydrates to climatic amelioration
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-05)Seafloor methane release due to the thermal dissociation of gas hydrates is pervasive across the continental margins of the Arctic Ocean. Furthermore, there is increasing awareness that shallow hydrate-related methane seeps have appeared due to enhanced warming of Arctic Ocean bottom water during the last century. Although it has been argued that a gas hydrate gun could trigger abrupt climate ... -
Reduced methane seepage from Arctic sediments during cold bottom-water conditions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-13)Large amounts of methane are trapped within gas hydrate in subseabed sediments in the Arctic Ocean, and bottom-water warming may induce the release of methane from the seafloor. Yet the effect of seasonal temperature variations on methane seepage activity remains unknown as surveys in Arctic seas are conducted mainly in summer. Here we compare the activity of cold seeps along the gas hydrate stability ... -
Seasonal shifts of microbial methane oxidation in Arctic shelf waters above gas seeps
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-07)The Arctic Ocean subseabed holds vast reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane (CH<sub>4</sub>), often seeping into the ocean water column. In a continuously warming ocean as a result of climate change an increase of CH<sub>4</sub> seepage from the seabed is hypothesized. Today, CH<sub>4</sub> is largely retained in the water column due to the activity of methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) that ... -
Seepage from an arctic shallow marine gas hydrate reservoir is insensitive to momentary ocean warming
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-07)Arctic gas hydrate reservoirs located in shallow water and proximal to the sediment-water interface are thought to be sensitive to bottom water warming that may trigger gas hydrate dissociation and the release of methane. Here, we evaluate bottom water temperature as a potential driver for hydrate dissociation and methane release from a recently discovered, gas-hydrate-bearing system south of ... -
Widespread natural methane and oil leakage from sub-marine Arctic reservoirs
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-30)Parceling the anthropogenic and natural (geological) sources of fossil methane in the atmosphere remains problematic due to a lack of distinctive chemical markers for their discrimination. In this light, understanding the distribution and contribution of potential geological methane sources is important. Here we present empirical observations of hitherto undocumented, widespread and extensive methane ...
