Sentences with phrase «gas hydrates hosted»
The research to be conducted by Georgia Tech will advance the understanding of the behavior of gas hydrates hosted in fine - grained sediments such as clay or silt, and will evaluate extraction methods relevant to the potential to produce gas from such sediments.
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The Arctic ocean floor hosts vast amounts of methane trapped as hydrates, which are ice - like, solid mixtures of gas and water.These hydrates are stable under high pressure and cold temperatures.
An abrupt warming of oceanic intermediate waters could have initiated the thermal destabilization of sediment - hosted methane gas hydrates and potentially triggered sediment slumps and slides.
In addition, deep fresh water lakes may host gas hydrates as well, e.g. the fresh water Lake Baikal, Siberia.
Here in Oregon we are the somewhat unwitting hosts of a great deal of methane hydrate research by Oregon State University, some Texas university people (and backing by the good old Houston - based gas industry), of deposits on and near the ocean floor on the Gorda Ridge just off our coast, which is a consequence of the subduction zone geomorphology of the area.