Research project

Dynamics of Gas Hydrates in Polar Marine Environments

Lead researcher:

Professor Tim Minshull
Status:

Not active

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

Connect with Tim

Email: tmin@noc.soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

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

Glacial stratigraphy, gas-escape features and ocean finestructures from multichannel high resolution seismic data offshore west Svalbard

Sudipta Sarkar

, 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

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