Roger Sassen - Publications

Affiliations: 
Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States 
Area:
Geology, Geophysics

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2014 Feng D, Birgel D, Peckmann J, Roberts HH, Joye SB, Sassen R, Liu XL, Hinrichs KU, Chen D. Time integrated variation of sources of fluids and seepage dynamics archived in authigenic carbonates from Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrate Seafloor Observatory Chemical Geology. 385: 129-139. DOI: 10.1016/J.Chemgeo.2014.07.020  0.475
2013 Sassen R, Sweet ST, Milkov AV, Defreitas DA, Kennicutt MC, Roberts HH. Stability of Thermogenic Gas Hydrate in the Gulf of Mexico: Constraints on Models of Climate Change Geophysical Monograph. 124: 131-143. DOI: 10.1029/Gm124P0131  0.838
2011 Mansour AS, Sassen R. Mineralogical and stable isotopic characterization of authigenic carbonate from a hydrocarbon seep site, Gulf of Mexico slope: Possible relation to crude oil degradation Marine Geology. 281: 59-69. DOI: 10.1016/J.Margeo.2011.02.004  0.424
2011 Jalees MI, Bianchi TS, Sassen R, Tahira F. Diamondoids and biomarkers: As a tool to better define the effects of thermal cracking and microbial oxidation on oils/condensates from reservoirs of the Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan Carbonates and Evaporites. 26: 155-165. DOI: 10.1007/S13146-011-0042-9  0.359
2008 Sassen R, Post P. Enrichment of diamondoids and 13C in condensate from Hudson Canyon, US Atlantic Organic Geochemistry. 39: 147-151. DOI: 10.1016/J.Orggeochem.2007.10.004  0.524
2006 Sassen R, Curiale JA. Microbial methane and ethane from gas hydrate nodules of the Makassar Strait, Indonesia Organic Geochemistry. 37: 977-980. DOI: 10.1016/J.Orggeochem.2006.04.016  0.715
2006 Rogers RE, Sassen R, Dearman JS, Zhang G. Factors prompting seafloor experiments to investigate microbial/hydrate relationships Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference. 284-289.  0.582
2005 Zhang CL, Huang Z, Cantu J, Pancost RD, Brigmon RL, Lyons TW, Sassen R. Lipid biomarkers and carbon isotope signatures of a microbial (Beggiatoa) mat associated with gas hydrates in the gulf of Mexico. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71: 2106-12. PMID 15812044 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.71.4.2106-2112.2005  0.485
2005 Pancost RD, Zhang CL, Tavacoli J, Talbot HM, Farrimond P, Schouten S, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Sassen R. Lipid biomarkers preserved in hydrate-associated authigenic carbonate rocks of the Gulf of Mexico Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 227: 48-66. DOI: 10.1016/J.Palaeo.2005.04.035  0.355
2005 Milkov AV, Claypool GE, Lee YJ, Sassen R. Gas hydrate systems at Hydrate Ridge offshore Oregon inferred from molecular and isotopic properties of hydrate-bound and void gases Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 69: 1007-1026. DOI: 10.1016/J.Gca.2004.08.021  0.84
2004 Milkov AV, Claypool GE, Lee YJ, Torres ME, Borowski WS, Tomaru H, Sassen R, Long PE. Ethane enrichment and propane depletion in subsurface gases indicate gas hydrate occurrence in marine sediments at southern Hydrate Ridge offshore Oregon Organic Geochemistry. 35: 1067-1080. DOI: 10.1016/J.Orggeochem.2004.04.003  0.841
2004 Sassen R, Roberts HH, Carney R, Milkov AV, DeFreitas DA, Lanoil B, Zhang C. Free hydrocarbon gas, gas hydrate, and authigenic minerals in chemosynthetic communities of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope: Relation to microbial processes Chemical Geology. 205: 195-217. DOI: 10.1016/J.Chemgeo.2003.12.032  0.814
2004 Milkov AV, Vogt PR, Crane K, Lein AY, Sassen R, Cherkashev GA. Geological, geochemical, and microbial processes at the hydrate-bearing Håkon Mosby mud volcano: A review Chemical Geology. 205: 347-366. DOI: 10.1016/J.Chemgeo.2003.12.030  0.809
2004 Formolo MJ, Lyons TW, Zhang C, Kelley C, Sassen R, Horita J, Cole DR. Quantifying carbon sources in the formation of authigenic carbonates at gas hydrate sites in the Gulf of Mexico Chemical Geology. 205: 253-264. DOI: 10.1016/J.Chemgeo.2003.12.021  0.434
2003 Milkov AV, Sassen R, Apanasovich TV, Dadashev FG. Global gas flux from mud volcanoes: A significant source of fossil methane in the atmosphere and the ocean Geophysical Research Letters. 30: 9-1. DOI: 10.1029/2002Gl016358  0.767
2003 Milkov AV, Sassen R. Two-dimensional modeling of gas hydrate decomposition in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Significance to global change assessment Global and Planetary Change. 36: 31-46. DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00162-5  0.829
2003 Milkov AV, Sassen R. Preliminary assessment of resources and economic potential of individualgas hydrate accumulations in the Gulf of Mexico continental slope Marine and Petroleum Geology. 20: 111-128. DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(03)00024-2  0.822
2003 Sassen R, Milkov AV, Ozgul E, Roberts HH, Hunt JL, Beeunas MA, Chanton JP, DeFreitas DA, Sweet ST. Gas venting and subsurface charge in the Green Canyon area, Gulf of Mexico continental slope: Evidence of a deep bacterial methane source? Organic Geochemistry. 34: 1455-1464. DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(03)00135-9  0.813
2003 Zhang CL, Pancost RD, Sassen R, Qian Y, Macko SA. Archaeal lipid biomarkers and isotopic evidence of anaerobic methane oxidation associated with gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico Organic Geochemistry. 34: 827-836. DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(03)00003-2  0.603
2003 Sassen R, Milkov AV, Roberts HH, Sweet ST, DeFreitas DA. Geochemical evidence of rapid hydrocarbon venting from a seafloor-piercing mud diapir, Gulf of Mexico continental shelf Marine Geology. 198: 319-329. DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00121-X  0.756
2002 Sassen R, Milkov AV. ABSTRACT: Environmental Significance of Gas and Oil Seeps, Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Aapg Bulletin. 86. DOI: 10.1306/3Fef4A87-1741-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.76
2002 Sassen R, Milkov AV, DeFreitas DA, Sweet ST. ABSTRACT: Molecular and Isotopic Properties of High Flux Gas Seeps, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Aapg Bulletin. 86. DOI: 10.1306/3Fef4A7D-1741-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.772
2002 Milkov AV, Sassen R. ABSTRACT: Economic Geology of Offshore Gas Hydrates: Where to Explore for Reserves? Aapg Bulletin. 86. DOI: 10.1306/3Fef448D-1741-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.783
2002 Milkov AV, Sassen R. ABSTRACT: Rapid Hydrocarbon Venting From A Seafloor-Piercing Mud Diapir on SS 286, Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf Aapg Bulletin. 86. DOI: 10.1306/3Fef4483-1741-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.663
2002 Zhang CL, Li Y, Wall JD, Larsen L, Sassen R, Huang Y, Wang Y, Peacock A, White DC, Horita J, Cole DR. Lipid and carbon isotopic evidence of methane-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacteria in association with gas hydrates from the Gulf of Mexico Geology. 30: 239. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0239:Lacieo>2.0.Co;2  0.516
2002 Zhang CL, Li Y, Wall JD, Larsen L, Sassen R, Huang Y, Wang Y, Peacock A, White DC, Horita J, Cole DR. Lipid and carbon isotopic evidence of methane-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacteria in association with gas hydrates from the Gulf of Mexico Geology. 30: 239-242. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0239:LACIEO>2.0.CO  0.419
2002 MacDonald IR, Leifer I, Sassen R, Stine P, Mitchell R, Guinasso N. Transfer of hydrocarbons from natural seeps to the water column and atmosphere Geofluids. 2: 95-107. DOI: 10.1046/J.1468-8123.2002.00023.X  0.619
2002 Milkov AV, Sassen R. Economic geology of offshore gas hydrate accumulations and provinces Marine and Petroleum Geology. 19: 1-11. DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(01)00047-2  0.829
2002 Roberts HH, Hunt JL, Shedd WW, Sassen R. Surficial Gas Hydrates, Part of the Fluid and Gas Expulsion Response Spectrum: Identification from 3D Seismic Data Proceedings of the Annual Offshore Technology Conference. 367-376.  0.531
2002 Sassen R, Milkov AV, DeFreitas DA, Roberts HH. Gas Venting and Gas Hydrate Stability in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Slope: Significance to Sediment Deformation Proceedings of the Annual Offshore Technology Conference. 377-383.  0.837
2001 Lanoil BD, Sassen R, La Duc MT, Sweet ST, Nealson KH. Bacteria and Archaea Physically Associated with Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrates Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 67: 5143-5153. PMID 11679338 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.67.11.5143-5153.2001  0.673
2001 Milkov AV, Sassen R. Economic Geology of the Gulf of Mexico and the Blake Ridge Gas Hydrate Provinces Aapg Bulletin. 51: 219-228. DOI: 10.1306/8626Cf4B-173B-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.827
2001 Milkov AV, Sassen R. ABSTRACT: Structurally-Focused Gas Hydrate Accumulations in the Gulf of Mexico: Economically Viable Exploration Target Aapg Bulletin. 85. DOI: 10.1306/61Eec7D4-173E-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.753
2001 Sassen R, Sweet ST, Milkov AV, DeFreitas DA, Kennicutt MC. Thermogenic vent gas and gas hydrate in the gulf of Mexico slope: Is gas hydrate decomposition significant? Geology. 29: 107-110. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0107:Tvgagh>2.0.Co;2  0.829
2001 Sassen R, Losh SL, Cathles L, Roberts HH, Whelan JK, Milkov AV, Sweet ST, DeFreitas DA. Massive vein-filling gas hydrate: Relation to ongoing gas migration from the deep subsurface in the Gulf of Mexico Marine and Petroleum Geology. 18: 551-560. DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(01)00014-9  0.835
2001 Sassen R, Sweet ST, DeFreitas DA, Morelos JA, Milkov AV. Gas hydrate and crude oil from the Mississippi Fan Foldbelt, downdip Gulf of Mexico Salt Basin: Significance to petroleum system Organic Geochemistry. 32: 999-1008. DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(01)00064-X  0.78
2001 Milkov AV, Sassen R. Estimate of gas hydrate resource, northwestern Gulf of Mexico continental slope Marine Geology. 179: 71-83. DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(01)00192-X  0.815
2001 Milkov AV, Sassen R. Structurally focused gas hydrate a future northwest US Gulf resource Recovery technology, cost still unknown Offshore. 61: 92-94.  0.72
2000 Fisher CR, MacDonald IR, Sassen R, Young CM, Macko SA, Hourdez S, Carney RS, Joye S, McMullin E. Methane ice worms: Hesiocaeca methanicola colonizing fossil fuel reserves. Die Naturwissenschaften. 87: 184-7. PMID 10840806 DOI: 10.1007/S001140050700  0.442
2000 Milkov AV, Sassen R. Abstract: Maximum depths of gas hydrate stability, Gulf of Mexico continental slope Aapg Bulletin. DOI: 10.1306/C9Ebdfdf-1735-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.796
2000 Milkov AV, Sassen R. Thickness of the gas hydrate stability zone, Gulf of Mexico continental slope Marine and Petroleum Geology. 17: 981-991. DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(00)00051-9  0.827
2000 Sassen R, Sweet ST, DeFreitas DA, Milkov AV. Exclusion of 2-methylbutane (isopentane) during crystallization of structure II gas hydrate in sea-floor sediment, Gulf of Mexico Organic Geochemistry. 31: 1257-1262. DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(00)00144-3  0.83
1999 Sassen R, Watkins JS. Abstract: Structural Setting and Geochemistry of Gas Hydrates, Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Aapg Bulletin. DOI: 10.1306/C9Ebc6B7-1735-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.566
1999 Sassen R, Joye S, Sweet ST, Defreitas DA, Milkov AV, MacDonald IR. Thermogenic gas hydrates and hydrocarbon gases in complex chemosynthetic communities, Gulf of Mexico continental slope Organic Geochemistry. 30: 485-497. DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(99)00050-9  0.816
1998 Sassen R, MacDonald IR, Guinasso NL, Joye S, Requejo AG, Sweet ST, Alcalá-Herrera J, DeFreitas DA, Schink DR. Bacterial methane oxidation in sea-floor gas hydrate: Significance to life in extreme environments Geology. 26: 851-854. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0851:Bmoisf>2.3.Co;2  0.671
1997 Sassen R, Macdonald IR. Hydrocarbons of experimental and natural gas hydrates, Gulf of Mexico continental slope Organic Geochemistry. 26: 289-293. DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(97)00001-6  0.683
1997 Sassen R, MacDonald IR. Thermogenic gas hydrates, Gulf of Mexico continental slope Acs Division of Fuel Chemistry, Preprints. 42: 472-474.  0.661
1996 Requejo AG, Sassen R, McDonald T, Denoux G, Kennicutt MC, Brooks JM. Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) as indicators of the source and maturity of marine crude oils Organic Geochemistry. 24: 1017-1033. DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(96)00079-4  0.377
1996 Hvoslef S, Christie OHJ, Sassen R, Kennicutt MC, Requejo AG, Brooks JM. Test of a new surface geochemistry tool for resource prediction in frontier areas Marine and Petroleum Geology. 13: 107-124. DOI: 10.1016/0264-8172(95)00032-1  0.322
1995 Machel HG, Krouse HR, Sassen R. Products and distinguishing criteria of bacterial and thermochemical sulfate reduction Applied Geochemistry. 10: 373-389. DOI: 10.1016/0883-2927(95)00008-8  0.466
1995 Requejo AG, Sassen R, Kennicutt MC, Kvedchuk I, McDonald T, Denoux G, Comet P, Brooks JM. Geochemistry of oils from the northern Timan-Pechora Basin, Russia Organic Geochemistry. 23: 205-222. DOI: 10.1016/0146-6380(94)00127-M  0.363
1994 Macdonald IR, Guinasso NL, Sassen R, Brooks JM, Lee L, Scott KT. Gas hydrate that breaches the sea floor on the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico Geology. 22: 699-702. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0699:Ghtbts>2.3.Co;2  0.684
1994 Kesler SE, Jones HD, Furman FC, Sassen R, Anderson WH, Kyle JR. Role of crude oil in the genesis of Mississippi Valley-type deposits: evidence from the Cincinnati arch Geology. 22: 609-612. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0609:Rocoit>2.3.Co;2  0.332
1994 Brooks JM, Anderson AL, Sassen R, MacDonald IR, Kennicutt MC, Guinasso NL. Hydrate occurrences in shallow subsurface cores from continental slope sediments Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 715: 381-391. DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.1994.Tb38851.X  0.571
1994 Sassen R, Cole GA, Drozd R, Roberts HH. Oligocene to Holocene hydrocarbon migration and salt-dome carbonates, northern Gulf of Mexico Marine and Petroleum Geology. 11: 55-65. DOI: 10.1016/0264-8172(94)90009-4  0.385
1994 Ukpabio EJ, Comet PA, Sassen R, Brooks JM. Triterpenes in a Nigerian oil Organic Geochemistry. 22: 323-329. DOI: 10.1016/0146-6380(94)90178-3  0.321
1994 Requejo AG, Wielchowsky CC, Klosterman MJ, Sassen R. Geochemical characterization of lithofacies and organic facies in Cretaceous organic-rich rocks from Trinidad, East Venezuela Basin Organic Geochemistry. 22. DOI: 10.1016/0146-6380(94)90118-X  0.402
1994 Sassen R, MacDonald IR. Evidence of structure H hydrate, Gulf of Mexico continental slope Organic Geochemistry. 22: 1029-1032. DOI: 10.1016/0146-6380(94)90036-1  0.466
1994 Sassen R, MacDonald IR, Requejo AG, Guinasso NL, Kennicutt MC, Sweet ST, Brooks JM. Organic geochemistry of sediments from chemosynthetic communities, Gulf of Mexico slope Geo-Marine Letters. 14: 110-119. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01203722  0.462
1993 Sassen R, Brooks JM, MacDonald IR, Kennicutt MC, Guinasso NL, Requejo AG. Association of Oil Seeps and Chemosynthetic Communities with Oil Discoveries, Upper Continental Slope, Gulf of Mexico Aapg Bulletin. 43. DOI: 10.1306/Bdff7D18-1718-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.406
1993 Macdonald IR, Guinasso NL, Ackleson SG, Amos JF, Duckworth R, Sassen R, Brooks JM. Natural Oil Slicks in the Gulf of Mexico Visible From Space Journal of Geophysical Research. 98: 16351-16364. DOI: 10.1029/93Jc01289  0.377
1993 Sassen R, Roberts HH, Aharon P, Larkin J, Chinn EW, Carney R. Chemosynthetic bacterial mats at cold hydrocarbon seeps, Gulf of Mexico continental slope Organic Geochemistry. 20: 77-89. DOI: 10.1016/0146-6380(93)90083-N  0.423
1991 Sassen R, Grayson P, Cole G, Roberts HH, Aharon P. Hydrocarbon Seepage and Salt Dome Related Carbonate Reservoir Rocks of the U. S. Gulf Coast Aapg Bulletin. 41. DOI: 10.1306/0C9B20Dd-1710-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.389
1991 Sassen R, Snelling R, Heydari E. Destruction of hydrocarbons and generation of nonhydrocarbon gases in deep carbonate reservoirs of the Smackover formation Organic Geochemistry. 17: 273. DOI: 10.1016/0146-6380(91)90088-2  0.319
1990 Cole GA, Sassen R, Chinn EW, Piggott N, Gibbons MJ. Origin of the Tertiary reservoired hydrocarbons along the central Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast rim Aapg Bulletin. 74. DOI: 10.1306/44B4Aec9-170A-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.408
1990 Chinn EW, Cole GA, Gibbons MJ, Sassen R, Drozd RJ. Organic Geochemistry of Lower Tertiary Shales of Southern Louisiana: Regional Distribution of Source Potential: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 74. DOI: 10.1306/44B4Ae92-170A-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.505
1990 Roberts HH, Aharon P, Carney R, Larkin J, Sassen R. Sea floor responses to hydrocarbon seeps, Louisiana continental slope Geo-Marine Letters. 10: 232-243. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02431070  0.462
1989 Roberts HH, Sassen R, Pau. Massive Gas- and Oil-Related Carbonates of Louisiana Continental Slope: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 73. DOI: 10.1306/703Ca2B1-1707-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.503
1988 Chinn EW, Lemoine R, Sassen R. Recognition of Depositional Environments Using Programmed Pyrolysis: Sparta Formation, South-Central Louisiana: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 72. DOI: 10.1306/703C97Fd-1707-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.39
1988 Sassen R, Moore CH. Framework of Hydrocarbon Generation and Destruction in Eastern Smackover Trend Aapg Bulletin. 72: 649-663. DOI: 10.1306/703C8Ef7-1707-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.386
1988 Sassen R. Geochemical and carbon isotopic studies of crude oil destruction, bitumen precipitation, and sulfate reduction in the deep Smackover Formation Organic Geochemistry. 12: 351-361. DOI: 10.1016/0146-6380(88)90009-5  0.31
1987 Sassen R, Moore CH, Nunn JA, Meendsen FC, Heydari E. Geochemical Studies of Crude Oil Generation, Migration, and Destruction in the Mississippi Salt Basin Aapg Bulletin. 37. DOI: 10.1306/703C7Fe3-1707-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.385
1987 Meendsen FC, Moore CH, Heydari E, Sassen R. Upper Jurassic Depositional Systems and Hydrocarbon Potential of Southeast Mississippi Aapg Bulletin. 37. DOI: 10.1306/703C7Fa7-1707-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.384
1984 Brooks JM, Kennicutt MC, Fay RR, McDonald TJ, Sassen R. Thermogenic gas hydrates in the gulf of Mexico. Science (New York, N.Y.). 225: 409-11. PMID 17813260 DOI: 10.1126/Science.225.4660.409  0.599
1984 Brooks JM, Kennicutt MC, Fay RR, McDonald TJ, Sassen R. Thermogenic gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico Science. 225: 409-411.  0.643
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