Sentences with phrase «called gas hydrate»

Ice sheets are heavy and cold, providing pressure and temperatures that contain methane in form of ice - like substance called gas hydrate.

In Siberian permafrost, large deposits of methane gas are trapped in ice, forming what is called a gas hydrate.

In March, Japan became the first country to successfully extract methane from frozen undersea deposits called gas hydrates.

Methane release from stores of so - called gas hydrates, that can form on land or under the sea, is not new to researchers.

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Far more is locked away in frozen deposits called methane gas hydrates.

In many parts of the world, the seafloor contains natural gas trapped inside ice crystals called hydrates.

It takes heat to convert hydrate into fluid + gas, what is called latent heat, just like regular water ice.

The lakes may also be storing large volumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane, frozen in a form called methane hydrates.

One implication of gas moving around and pooling like this is that the hydrate concentration can be higher, even to the point of what they call massive deposits, lumps of nearly pure hydrate.