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{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/1044833","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"1044833","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/1044833","text":"where t is simulation time in years and sed is sedimentation rate (6 cm · 1,000 y−1) [29]. Early seepage rate approximated the highest flux rates measured or estimated for methane seeps and declined with time in the model to the highest estimates for persistent, region-wide seepage in the Gulf of Mexico (Table 1). This follows a pattern of hydrocarbon seep development, with the highest seepage rates early in the evolution of the local seepage source followed by occlusion of fluid migration pathways by carbonate precipitation, hydrate formation, and possibly tubeworm root growth. By using the highest rate estimated (32 mm · y−1 = 0.000365 cm · h−1 in equation 10) as the basal seepage rate, we are testing the possibility that tubeworm aggregations could survive under the most favorable conditions possible in the absence of tubeworm sulfate supply.","tracks":[]}