Sentences with phrase «hydrates under the oceans»

Gargantuan stores of gas hydrates under the oceans and permafrost regions of the globe have many scientists wondering whether they can find an economically feasible way to unlock the methane, creating a natural gas supply that could last for centuries.

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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.

Hydrate Ridge is a pile of sediments that has been scraped off and piled up as the tectonic plate carrying the northwest Pacific Ocean slides under North America.

Fumio Inagaki from the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology, who made the discovery, says the lake probably formed when carbon dioxide seeped out through the ocean floor from a deep - sea volcano and pooled under a blanket of solid, icelike CO2 hydrate and deep - sea sediment.

Methane hydrate forms in cold temperatures and under high pressure — conditions that can be found at the bottom of the ocean.

Another vast source of methane is in icy deposits known as methane hydrates, often in sediments deep under the world's oceans.

The Department of Energy said it also has the potential to eventually unlock massive reservoirs of methane hydrates that are believed to exist under the ocean floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

The project at the University of Texas at Austin will develop conceptual and numerical models to analyze conditions under which gas will be expelled from existing marine accumulations of gas hydrate into the ocean, which could potentially have a damaging effect to the ecosystem.

The USGS, which announced the discovery, estimates there is about 700,000 tcf of gas hydrate worldwide, most of it below the ocean floors, where hydrates form under high pressure and cold temperatures.

Methane hydrates are 3D ice - lattice structures with natural gas locked inside, and are found both onshore and offshore — including under the Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along nearly every continental shelf in the world.

Stocks Under conditions of high pressure, high methane concentration, and low temperature, water and methane can combine to form icy solids known as methane hydrates or clathrates in ocean sediments.