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Here is a link to the
presentation by Dr. Jill Weinberger. You
can also access this and related presentations
through the
BRG Educational Resources web site.
Visit
Dr.
Jill Weinberger's home page to learn more
about her background and research.
Below are two key sections
that relate to this Workshop:
"My research focuses on the
interaction between subsurface fluid
migration,
lithology, and tectonics.
This interaction affects a wide
range of geologic
processes from the
mechanical properties of faults to
the distribution
of mineral
resources and is of immediate
societal interest for its influence
on hazardous waste remediation,
water resources management, and
slope
stability issues. In the
marine environment, the influence of
fluid/sediment
interactions on
methane gas hydrate distribution has
been a topic of
recent interest
because this compound, an ice-like
crystalline solid in
which a lattice
cage of water molecules traps a
molecule of methane gas,
has been
touted as an agent for climate
change, is a potential new source
of
economically recoverable organic
carbon, and likely influences
sub-marine
slope stability."
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Hydrate Ridge
Hydrate Ridge, OR is an accretionary
ridge located ~100 km offshore
central Oregon. It is formed by the subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate
beneath the North American Plate.
Scientific interest in Hydrate Ridge
has made it the focus of several
international, interdisciplinary,
studies
in recent years. I
participated in
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Leg 204,
to southern Hydrate
Ridge as a sedimentologist/structural
geologist in
order to determine the
role of subsurface fluids in
controlling the distribution
of
hydrate in this complex geologic
environment.
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