of Concepción, during October 2004. The goal of the expedition was to survey regions of
possible hydrate accumulations by integrating data from seismic surveys, geochemical
analysis of porewater samples from piston cores, and heatflow probing. Piston cores were
collected at 13 sites along a NE–SW transect, which ran between 36′ 10.38 S, 73′ 35.72
W and 36′ 12.50 S, 73′ 3976W. This sample pattern was based on a previous deep …