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Kosuke Egawa1,2,3\*

Address all correspondence to: egawa.k@aist.go.jp

1 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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2 Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

3 Methane Hydrate Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan
