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Characteristics of hydrate-bound gas retrieved at the Kedr mud volcano (southern Lake Baikal). / Hachikubo, Akihiro; Minami, Hirotsugu; Yamashita, Satoshi; Khabuev, Andrey; Krylov, Alexey; Kalmychkov, Gennadiy; Poort, Jeffrey; De Batist, Marc; Chenskiy, Alexandr; Manakov, Andrey; Khlystov, Oleg.
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T1 - Characteristics of hydrate-bound gas retrieved at the Kedr mud volcano (southern Lake Baikal)
AU - Hachikubo, Akihiro
AU - Minami, Hirotsugu
AU - Yamashita, Satoshi
AU - Khabuev, Andrey
AU - Krylov, Alexey
AU - Kalmychkov, Gennadiy
AU - Poort, Jeffrey
AU - De Batist, Marc
AU - Chenskiy, Alexandr
AU - Manakov, Andrey
AU - Khlystov, Oleg
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s). Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - We reported the characteristics of hydrate-bound hydrocarbons in lake-bottom sediments at the Kedr mud volcano in Lake Baikal. Twenty hydrate-bearing sediment cores were retrieved, and methane-stable isotopes of hydrate-bound gases (δ13C and δ2H of − 47.8‰ to − 44.0‰ V-PDB and − 280.5‰ to − 272.8‰ V-SMOW, respectively) indicated their thermogenic origin accompanied with secondary microbial methane. Powder X-ray diffraction patterns of the crystals and molecular composition of the hydrate-bound gases suggested that structure II crystals showed a high concentration of ethane (around 14% of hydrate-bound hydrocarbons), whereas structure I crystals showed a relatively low concentration of ethane (2–5% of hydrate-bound hydrocarbons). These different crystallographic structures comprised complicated layers in the sub-lacustrine sediment, suggesting that the gas hydrates partly dissociate, concentrate ethane and form structure II crystals. We concluded that a high concentration of thermogenic ethane primarily controls the crystallographic structure of gas hydrates and that propane, iso-butane (2-methylpropane) and neopentane (2,2-dimethylpropane) are encaged into crystals in the re-crystallisation process.
AB - We reported the characteristics of hydrate-bound hydrocarbons in lake-bottom sediments at the Kedr mud volcano in Lake Baikal. Twenty hydrate-bearing sediment cores were retrieved, and methane-stable isotopes of hydrate-bound gases (δ13C and δ2H of − 47.8‰ to − 44.0‰ V-PDB and − 280.5‰ to − 272.8‰ V-SMOW, respectively) indicated their thermogenic origin accompanied with secondary microbial methane. Powder X-ray diffraction patterns of the crystals and molecular composition of the hydrate-bound gases suggested that structure II crystals showed a high concentration of ethane (around 14% of hydrate-bound hydrocarbons), whereas structure I crystals showed a relatively low concentration of ethane (2–5% of hydrate-bound hydrocarbons). These different crystallographic structures comprised complicated layers in the sub-lacustrine sediment, suggesting that the gas hydrates partly dissociate, concentrate ethane and form structure II crystals. We concluded that a high concentration of thermogenic ethane primarily controls the crystallographic structure of gas hydrates and that propane, iso-butane (2-methylpropane) and neopentane (2,2-dimethylpropane) are encaged into crystals in the re-crystallisation process.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41598-020-71410-2
DO - 10.1038/s41598-020-71410-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 32901048
AN - SCOPUS:85090395736
VL - 10
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
SN - 2045-2322
IS - 1
M1 - 14747
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