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Bottom Simulating Reflections in Antarctica

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There are several reports of gas hydrates offshore Antarctica. These reports come from the South Shetland continental margin, the Weddel Sea, the Ross Sea continental margin and the Wilkes Land continental margin. The most intensive study of gas hydrates has been performed on the South Shetland margin, where an important gas hydrate reservoir is well-documented. The main focus of these studies has been the relationship between hydrate stability and environmental controls, including climate change. Climate changes fastest in transition zones such as the peri-Antarctic regions. This suggests that hydrate dissociation, as predicted by recent modelling offshore Antarctic Peninsula, may be most easily detected here.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to all of the colleagues that contributed to my knowledge of gas hydrates in Antarctica. In particular, in alphabetic order: Flavio Accaino (OGS, Italy), Daniela Accettella (OGS, Italy), Angelo Camerlenghi (OGS, Italy), Michela Giustiniani (OGS, Italy), Emanuele Lodolo (OGS, Italy), Maria Filomena Loreto (former OGS, Italy, now Istituto di Scienze Marine, CNR, Italy), Hector Marin-Moreno (former OGS, Italy, now Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Norway), Jong Kuk Hong (Korea Polar Research Institute, Korea), Xuewei Liu (China University of Geosciences, China), Cristina Neagu (former OGS, Italy), Sha Song (former OGS, Italy, now Chang’an University, China). The research in Antarctica has been partially supported by the Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the TALENTS FVG Programme - European Social Fund, and the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research under the grant for Italian participation in the activities related to the international infrastructure Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE).

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    Umberta Tinivella

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  1. CAGE—Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

    Jürgen Mienert

  2. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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  3. College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

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    Angelo Camerlenghi

  5. National Taiwan University Ocean Center, Taipei, Taiwan

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Tinivella, U. (2022). Bottom Simulating Reflections in Antarctica. In: Mienert, J., Berndt, C., Tréhu, A.M., Camerlenghi, A., Liu, CS. (eds) World Atlas of Submarine Gas Hydrates in Continental Margins. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81186-0_42

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