Formation of shallow free gas and gas hydrate accumulations in the continental margin off SW Taiwan

Christian Berndt1, Judith Elger1, Klaus J G Wallmann1, Kuo-Yen Wei2, Tim Freudenthal3, Christian Deusner1, Wu-Cheng Chi4, Saulwood Lin5 and Gerhard Bohrmann6, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)MARUM, Bremen, Germany, (4)Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (5)IONTU Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (6)Univ Bremen, Bremen, Germany