RODRIGUES , Frederico

This chapter starts with an introduction of the topic of natural gas hydrates, presenting the main existing types, how they form, the main gases involved in their formation, their economic and environmental (including climate change and as geohazards) importance, in addition to their worldwide natural occurrences. Also included is a brief...

Submarine gas hydrate systems are increasingly recognised to be associated with seafloor features recording the venting of gas-rich fluids to the deep ocean. The Amazon deep-sea fan contains a gas hydrate system characterised by a discontinuous bottom simulating reflection (BSR) forming elongate patches that follow the crests of thrust-folds...

The existence of gas hydrate systems along Brazil's vast continental margin has been known since the 1980s, based on observations of bottom simulating reflectors (BSRs) in two large shelf-slope depocenters: (1) the Amazon deep-sea fan in the Foz do Amazonas Basin and (2) Rio Grande Cone in Pelotas Basin. These depocenters are both undergoing...