Sentences with phrase «seafloor hydrate deposits»
The «methane bomb» idea refers to deep water seafloor hydrate deposits.
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Not the least of the challenges is that marine hydrate deposits are located in ocean mud up to a kilometer below the seafloor.
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.
Rich deposits of methane hydrate underlie much of the Arctic seafloor.
What this exciting new research vessel will allow us to learn about seafloor spreading, earthquakes, magma flow, gas hydrate deposits, continental drift, and more, will expand scientific knowledge about the Earth and contribute to our ability as humans to withstand its extreme forces.
MacDonald, I.R., L.C. Bender, M. Vardaro, B. Bernard, and J.M. Brooks, Thermal and visual time - series at a seafloor gas hydrate deposit on the Gulf of Mexico slope, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233 (1 - 2), 45 - 59, 2005.