Duofu Chen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how gas might lead to pockmark formation and show that deformation of the sediments above the chimney and water flow fast enough to quicken the sediment begins when the gas chimney reaches half way from the base of its source gas pocket to the seafloor.

TL;DR: Authigenic carbonates recovered from two newly discovered active cold seeps on the northwestern slope of the South China Sea have been studied using petrography, mineralogy, stable carbon and oxygen isotopic, as well as trace element compositions, together with AMS 14C ages of seep-dwelling bivalves to unravel fluid sources, formation conditions, and seepage dynamics as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the cold seep systems of the South China Sea (SCS) with an emphasis on seafloor manifestations, fluid sources, biogeochemical processes, and macroecology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the petrography, mineralogy, stable carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions, element geochemistry and radiocarbon dating of authigenic carbonate rocks retrieved from the seafloor.

TL;DR: In the South China Sea, a very light carbon isotopic composition (51.25 to 51.76 parts per thousand) suggests that their carbon was derived from microbial methane oxidization as discussed by the authors.