It’s been fluids rising from the deep: thermogenic gas preconditioned and potentially triggered the Cape Fear Landslide
Michel Kühn1, Anne Becel2, Hugh Daigle3, C. Jo Grall4, Jared Kluesner5, Nathaniel C Miller6, James Gibson3, Wayne E. Baldwin7 and Ali Mohamed8, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States, (4)LIENSs, CNRS UMR7266, CNRS, LaRochelle University, La Rochelle, France, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, United States, (6)USGS, Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)USGS, Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, United States, (8)University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States