Ancient Methane Reservoirs in the Barents Sea Had a Dramatic Exit (6 of 6) (VIDEO)
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Gas hydrate is a solid, ice-like mixture of water and gas, often methane. Also known as ice that burns, the hydrate concentrates energy of natural gas, and when set on fire, can burn for a long time. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 2, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Andreassen at Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø, Norway, and colleagues was titled, 'Massive blow-out craters formed by hydrate-controlled methane expulsion from the Arctic seafloor.'
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