New insights into the marine minerals and energy resources of the Chilean continental shelf with an environmental approach

L Villar-Muñoz, JP Bento, I Vargas-Cordero… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chile is the world's leading producer of many terrestrial mineral resources; however, the
potential of the country's marine mineral resources has been largely overlooked. Within its …

[HTML][HTML] Interdisciplinary results of an Italian research project on methane recovery and carbon dioxide storage in natural gas hydrate reservoirs

B Castellani, R Giovannetti, U Tinivella, SF Cannone… - Green Carbon, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural gas hydrates (NGH) are found in marine sediments on continental and island
slopes, in deep-water sediments of lakes and seas inland, and in polar sediment on …

The distinct morphologic signature of underplating and seamounts in accretionary prisms, insights from thermomechanical modeling applied to Coastal Iranian …

S Pajang, MM Khatib, M Heyhat, N Cubas, E Bessiere… - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
The active structures of the Iranian Makran, especially the presence of normal faults, vary
laterally in the upper plate of the subduction zone, and their relationship with the deep …

[HTML][HTML] Heat Flow Measurements at the Danube Deep-Sea Fan, Western Black Sea

M Riedel, J Bialas, H Villinger, T Pape, M Haeckel… - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Seafloor heat flow measurements are utilized to determine the geothermal regime of the
Danube deep-sea fan in the western Black Sea and are presented in the larger context of …

Gas hydrate versus seabed morphology offshore Lebu (Chilean margin)

I Vargas-Cordero, U Tinivella, L Villar-Muñoz… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Gas-hydrate occurrences along the Chilean margin have been widely documented, but the
processes associated with fluid escapes caused by the dissociation of gas hydrates are still …

A cold seep triggered by a hot ridge subduction

L Villar-Muñoz, M Kinoshita, JP Bento… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Chile Triple Junction, where the hot active spreading centre of the Chile Rise
system subducts beneath the South American plate, offers a unique opportunity to …

Thermally-induced diffusion on methane mass transfer in high-pressure aqueous solutions

L Zhang, Z Wang, W Lu, Y Li - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper has investigated the mass transfer process of methane (CH 4) in aqueous
solution under the effect of temperature gradient using quantitative Raman spectroscopy. At …

Gas hydrate: environmental and climate impacts

U Tinivella, M Giustiniani, IC Vargas Cordero, A Vasilev - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This Special Issue reports research spanning from the analysis of indirect data, modelling,
laboratory and geological data confirming the intrinsic multidisciplinarity of the gas hydrate …

Effect of nano-SiO2 particles on THF hydrate induction time and its distribution

C Sun, S Liu, S Li, K Wang, X Li, Z Zhang - Gas Science and Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Clathrate hydrate has been studied for a few decades as a potential alternative energy
source and gas storage medium. The direct engineering application of hydrate is still …

Gas hydrate system offshore Chile

I Vargas-Cordero, M Giustiniani, U Tinivella… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the Chilean margin has been extensively investigated to better
characterize the complex geological setting through the geophysical data. The analysis of …