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Gas Hydrate-Bearing Province off Eastern Sakhalin Slope (Sea of Okhotsk): Geological Setting and Factors of Control

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The Sea of Okhotsk is on the northeastern Sakhalin slope offshore Russia, towards the Deryugin Basin. It is not only a region of remarkably active methane seeps, but also a vast gas hydrate-bearing province featuring deep hydrocarbon source layers via active fault systems. Coring samples have proven that numerous seep structures in this area are hydrate-bearing. An area venting focused fluid off NE Sakhalin has been repeatedly investigated in the framework of Russian and International projects, which have generated a database for characterizing the geological setting of the province and for revealing important geological factors that control gas hydrate formation.

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    Tatiana Matveeva, Elizaveta Logvina, Olga Nazarova & Vyacheslav Gladysh

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Matveeva, T., Logvina, E., Nazarova, O., Gladysh, V. (2022). Gas Hydrate-Bearing Province off Eastern Sakhalin Slope (Sea of Okhotsk): Geological Setting and Factors of Control. 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_32

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