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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

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
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