A KAIST research team has identified the formation of natural gas hydrates, so-called flammable ice, formed in oceans. Professor Tae-Hyuk Kwon from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and his team found that ...
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Gas hydrates are considered a potential source of energy. Over the past 10 years, the Submarine Gas Hydrate Deposits (SUGAR) project has significantly expanded the basic knowledge of gas hydrates and resulted in the development ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2018
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Like avalanches onshore,many processes cause submarine landslides. One very widespread assumption is that they are associated with dissociating gas hydrates in the seafloor. However, scientists at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2018
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Methane hydrates, also known as "burning ice," occur at all ocean margins. The compound of gas and water occurs in the seafloor and it is only stable under relatively high pressures and low temperatures. If the pressure is ...
Environment
Feb 13, 2018
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Ocean sediments are a massive storehouse for the potent greenhouse gas methane.
Environment
Jan 17, 2018
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For years, methane emissions from the seabed have been observed in the Arctic Ocean off Spitsbergen. Researchers have proposed that the warming of seawater by climate change is responsible for the release of methane, but ...
Environment
Jan 9, 2018
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Gas clathrate hydrates are ice-like solids, in which gas molecules or atoms are trapped inside crystalline frameworks formed by water molecules. They have attracted considerable attention over the last decade for their potential ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 30, 2017
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Dark features on Mars previously considered evidence for subsurface flowing of water are interpreted by new research as granular flows, where grains of sand and dust slip downhill to make dark streaks, rather than the ground ...
Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2017
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Clathrate (hydrate) gun hypothesis stirred quite the controversy when it was posed in 2003. It stated that methane hydrates—frozen water cages containing methane gas found below the ocean floor—can melt due to increasing ...
Environment
Aug 23, 2017
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Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering are using a novel means of studying how methane and water form methane hydrate that allows them to examine discrete steps in the process faster and more efficiently.
Environment
Aug 22, 2017
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