日本地球惑星科学連合2018年大会

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[M-IS17] ガスハイドレートと地球環境・資源科学

2018年5月22日(火) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 7ホール)

コンビーナ:戸丸 仁(千葉大学理学部地球科学科)、八久保 晶弘(北見工業大学)、谷 篤史(神戸大学 大学院人間発達環境学研究科、共同)、後藤 秀作(産業技術総合研究所地圏資源環境研究部門)

[MIS17-P04] 海底・湖底におけるメタン生成環境の比較 ―オホーツク海、日本海およびバイカル湖の例―

*菊池 優樹1八久保 晶弘1Khlystov Oleg2Kalmychkov Gennadiy3De Batist Marc4Jin Young K.5Obzhirov Anatoly6坂上 寛敏1南 尚嗣1山下 聡1 (1.北見工業大学、2.ロシア科学アカデミー陸水学研究所、3.ロシア科学アカデミー地球化学研究所、4.ゲント大学、5.韓国極地研究所、6.ロシア太平洋海洋学研究所)

キーワード:ガスハイドレート、メタン、オホーツク海、日本海、バイカル湖

In the framework of international collaboration SSGH (Sakhalin Slope Gas Hydrate, 2007-2015) and MHP (Multi-phase Gas Hydrate Project, 2009-2018), Environmental and Energy Resources Research Center, Kitami Institute of Technology has collected many gas samples from submarine and sublacustrine environments where near-surface gas hydrate exists. In this report, we focus on more than 3,000 data of sediment gas using a headspace gas method, and discuss the environments of methane generation under sea and fresh waters.

The sediment gas, mainly dissolved gases in pore water, was obtained by the headspace gas method. 10 mL sediment was sampled from the sediment core by a plastic syringe (volume: 5 mL) and put into a 25 mL vial. 10 mL NaCl aqueous solution (saturated) was introduced into the vial by using a micropipette and sealed employing a butyl rubber septum to make a headspace. To avoid any changes in the headspace, the headspace part was flushed by helium. We measured the molecular and isotopic compositions of headspace gases using gas chromatograph and CF-IRMS in our laboratory.

Methane δ13C in almost all samples are plotted between -100‰ and -40‰ in both submarine and sublacustrine environments. On the other hand, distribution of CO2 δ13C in marine and sublacustrine environments are different with each other: the former between -60‰ and +20‰ and the latter between -20‰ and +30‰. Light CO2 in the sea-bottom sediment are produced by an oxidation of light methane around the SMI depth, so-called a methane recycling process (Borowski et al., 1997).

Our data includes not only the field of microbial methane, but also thermogenic methane in both marine and sublacustrine enviroments. Positive relations of δ13C between methane and CO2 were found in both environments (submarine: Tatar Trough, sublacustrine: Kukuy, PosolBank, and Kedr mud volcanoes). CO2 δ13C with thermogenic methane was larger than that with microbial methane, suggesting the existence of microbial effects even in the thermogenic gas.

Reference

Borowski WS, Paull CK, Ussler W III (1997) Carbon cycling within the upper methanogenic zone of continental rise sediments; an example from the methane-rich sediments overlying the Blake Ridge gas hydrate deposits. Mar Chem 57: 299-311