Sonobuoy seismic data collected during 1982 in the Bering Sea

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Cooper ◽  
M. S. Marlow ◽  
Thomas O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Bering Sea ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
The Bering Sea

Anomalous seismic character—Bering Sea Shelf

Geophysics ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 590-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger D. Hammond ◽  
John R. Gaither
Keyword(s):  
Bering Sea ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Bottom Simulating Reflector ◽  
Diagenetic Alteration ◽  
Gas Molecules ◽  
Seismic Sections ◽  
Bering Sea Shelf ◽  
The Bering Sea

Seismic data collected within basins along the outer Bering Sea Shelf often exhibit a distinct change in seismic character between 1.0 and 2.0 sec two‐way time. This change appears on seismic sections as a reflector or as an increase or decrease in amplitude. The feature is of regional extent. This change in seismic character is a manifestation of what has been called in other basins a bottom simulating reflector (BSR). BSRs are reflectors that (1) are subparallel with sea floor topography, (2) are discordant with stratigraphy where the sea floor dictates, and (3) do not demonstrate all the characteristics of a multiple. Two causes of BSRs are generally accepted. One involves an ice‐like mixture of water and gas, called “gas hydrate,” in which gas molecules are trapped within a framework of water molecules. The other cause involves the diagenetic alteration of biogenic opal‐A to opal‐CT in diatomaceous sediments. BSRs were penetrated at three locations in the Bering Sea in water depths greater than 1800 m on leg 19 of the Deep Sea Drilling Program (DSDP). The BSRs at these locations were attributed to the diagenetic alteration of opal‐A. This same diagenesis of opal‐A to opal‐CT is interpreted to be the cause of seismic character changes noted in basins on the Bering Sea Shelf. Pitfalls in seismic interpretation may be encountered where this reflector intersects other reflectors at an observable angle. The BSR may look like a sequence boundary or a direct hydrocarbon indicator. Recognition of the presence of this seismic character change is of two‐fold importance to explorationists: (1) it aids the understanding of the geology of the Bering Sea Shelf, and (2) it helps avoid seismic interpretational pitfalls.

Preliminary isopach map of the Bering Sea basin

1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan K. Cooper ◽  
K.A. Bailey ◽  
M. S. Marlow ◽  
D. W. Scholl ◽  
C.E. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Bering Sea ◽  
Isopach Map ◽  
The Bering Sea

Aspidisca beringiana sp. nov. and Simbiodisca subgen. nov. (Ciliophora, Euplotida), a symbiont of terebellid polychaetes in the Bering Sea

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-190
Author(s):  
A.W. Jankowski
Keyword(s):  
Bering Sea ◽  
Tidal Zone ◽  
Generic Rank ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
Bering Island ◽  
The Bering Sea

Terebellids in tidal zone of the Bering Island bear three new symbionts - rhabdophryid suctorians, peritrichs with small rosette-like colonies and aspidiscid hypotrich with a long peristome parallel to left body margin. This is the main feature of a new subgenus of the genus Aspidisca, named Simbiodisca. It may deserve the full generic rank if the use of protargol silvering method will not reveal any upper left rudiment of the peristomal membranelles.

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