Underground Methane Gas Invades Sediment (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Underground Methane Gas Invades Sediment (1 of 2)

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This image at left shows underground methane gas as it begins to invade fine-grain sediment (shown in yellow) by creating a fracture. In the image at right, the blue circles represent pore spaces where the gas has invaded.

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Ruben Juanes, MIT and Antone Jain

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