500m wide and 10m high, the methane domes on the Arctic Ocean floor are
containing huge amounts of methane.
They are associated with temporal changes in dissociation of gas hydrates - the icy substance that
contains huge amounts of methane.
They are associated with temporal changes in dissociation of gas hydrates — the icy substance that
contains huge amounts of methane.
Gas hydrates
contain huge amount of methane gas, and it is destabilization of these that is believed to have caused the craters on the Yamal Peninsula.
Not exact matches
A Titanic Ocean At first glance, one might think that Titan's
methane would be easier to understand: the moon formed in the subnebula
of Saturn, whose atmosphere
contains huge amounts of the gas.
Perhaps more ominously yet, the possibility exists that thawing Arctic permafrost — known to
contain huge amounts of carbon — could release large
amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
This matters because there is a
huge amount of carbon currently locked up in permafrost, and the
methane hydrates alone
contain more carbon than all
of Earth's proven reserves
of coal, oil, and natural gas combined.