On continental margins, high saturation gas hydrate systems (>60% pore volume) are common in canyon and channel environments within the stability zone, where reservoirs dominated by coarse-grained, porosity sand deposits. Recent studies, including results presented here, suggest that rapidly deposited, silt-dominated channel-levee can also host accumulations. Here we present several sedimentolo...

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A Valanginian to Barremian bathyal foraminiferal assemblage (118 taxa belonging to 51 genera) is documented from ODP Site 766, drilled near the foot of the Exmouth Plateau off northwest Australia. The majority of taxa are cosmopolitan species previously described from the boreal assemblages of northern Europe and the northern margins of the Tethys, but 32 taxa could not be assigned to previousl...