scholarly journals Gas hydrate database for Canadian Arctic and selected east coast wells

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
S L Smith ◽  
A S Judge
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
John Shaw ◽  
D. Patrick Potter ◽  
Yongsheng Wu

Data from two surveys by multi-beam sonar and two by marine/terrestrial LiDAR are used to evaluate the geomorphology of the seafloor in littoral areas of the Canadian Arctic Channels, near King William Island, Nunavut. Submarine terrains show well-preserved glacial landforms (drumlins, mega-scale glacial lineations, iceberg-turbated terrain, recessional moraines, and glaciofluvial landforms) with only slight modification by modern processes (wave action and sea-ice activity). At Gjoa Haven the seafloor is imprinted by fields of pits 2 m wide and 0.15 m deep. They may result from gas hydrate dissolution triggered by falling relative sea levels. The Arctic Archipelago displays what might be termed inverted terrains: marine terrains, chiefly beach ridge complexes, exist above modern sea level and well-preserved glacial terrains are present below modern sea level. This is the inverse of the submerging regimes of Atlantic Canada, where glacial terrains exist on land, but below sea level they have been effaced and modified by marine processes down to the lowstand depth.


1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Wang ◽  
M. E. Evans

A total of 357 samples taken from two long cores (Taglu, Kumak) drilled in the Mackenzie River delta have been investigated paleomagnetically. Remanence and susceptibility were measured in the field while the samples were still frozen. Profiles of susceptibility (5772 measurements) permit lateral correlation and imply that the average accumulation rate at Taglu was ~50% greater than that at Kumak, which lies 15 km to the southwest. Polarity reversals were found in both cores. The Matuyama–Brunhes boundary occurs at depths of 152 and 111 m at Taglu and Kumak, respectively; corresponding depths for the Gauss – Matuyama boundary are 356 and 243 m. In addition to the major chrons, we also find evidence of the Olduvai and Jaramillo subchrons. The chronology based on these data suggests that a major change in sedimentation history occurred about 1.5 Ma ago. This feasibility study thus suggests that paleomagnetism has chronological potential in permafrost environments that are currently important in frontier hydrocarbon exploration and as natural gas hydrate reservoirs.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. C. Iyare ◽  
J. K. Marcelle-Desilva ◽  
W. G. Bertrand ◽  
W. DeLandro-Clarke
Keyword(s):  

1979 ◽  
Vol 1979 (1) ◽  
pp. 677-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Venkatesh ◽  
H. S. Sahota ◽  
A. S. Rizkalla

ABSTRACT An oil spill movement prediction model operating as part of a real-time Environmental Prediction Support System for the Canadian Beaufort Sea has been developed. The present version of the model considers spills only in open waters, that is, the sea surface is considered to be ice free. The model has been partially verified with data obtained from oil simulation experiments conducted in the Bay of Fundy, off the east coast of Canada during the months of August and September, 1978. With the use of observed winds, the model-predicted locations of “Orion” buoys used to simulate the motion of oil on water, agreed fairly well with their observed locations. These verification tests also pointed out the need for high resolution surface wind forecasts — essential data for computing wind-driven water currents which move the oil.


1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.S. Ahlbrandt ◽  
W.P. Dillon
Keyword(s):  
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