supported by the China Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41076037);China Geological Survey (Grant No.GZH2012006003);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2009CB219508)
The Shenhu area on the northern continental slope of the South China Sea (SCS) is one of the promising fields for gas hydrate exploitation. The hydrate-bearing layer at drilling site SH2 is overlain and underlain by...