Sentences with phrase «hydrate deposits along»
The 12/12/2005 RC article on methane hydrate (I'm sorry but I don't know how to provide the url) refers to large hydrate deposits along the Oregon and Gulf coasts.
http://www.realclimate.org/
The consortium will coordinate scientific input and develop plans for future marine hydrate expeditions to conduct research drilling, recovering samples of the formation, logging and analytical activities to assess the geologic occurrence, regional context, and characteristics of methane hydrate deposits along the continental margins of the United States, likely focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic margin.
Not exact matches
Key hypotheses of the origin of this soil include hydrothermal activity generating sulfate - rich, hydrated deposits on early Mars similar to what is found along the flanks of active Hawaiian volcanoes on Earth.
Researchers have been studying this process in a concentrated effort 100 kilometers off the coast of Oregon, along a dumbbell - shaped promontory called Hydrate Ridge for the icy deposits that virtually pave the seafloor there.
Hydrothermal activity generates sulfate - rich hydrated mineral deposits along volcanoes, similar to the soil surrounding Hawaiian volcanoes.