methane hydrate

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methane
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmiː.θeɪn/us
/ˈmiː.θeɪn/
a gas with no smell or colour, often used as ...
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hydrate
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhaɪ.dreɪt/us
/ˈhaɪ.dreɪt/
a chemical that ...
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The seabed probably containedmethanehydratedeposits, and the lava caused the deposits to dissociate, releasing vast quantities of methane.
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The book explains how the release ofmethanehydrateand the release of methane from melting permafrost could unleash a major extinction event.
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Methane gas has been found undermethanehydrate, frozen methane and water, beneath the ocean floor.
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Other sources of methane, the principal component of natural gas, include landfill gas, biogas, andmethanehydrate.
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Methane clathrates, also known as methane hydrates, consist of methane molecules trapped in cages of water molecules.
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That would melt all the ice on the planet, and probably thaw methane hydrates and scorch carbon from global peat deposits and tropical forests.
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Oceanic methane hydrates are usually found buried in sediments where the seawater is at least 300m ft deep.
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Because the methane hydrates are unstable, save at cool temperatures and high (deep) pressures, scientists have observed smaller burps due to tectonic events.
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Carbon is also locked up as methane hydrates in polar regions and under the seas.
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At the least extreme, this implies global warming sufficient to induce out-of-control amplifying feedbacks, such as ice sheet disintegration and melting of methane hydrates.
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Hydrocarbons are mined from tar sands and oil shale, and potentially extracted from sedimentary methane hydrates.
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The transfer of warm surface ocean water to intermediate depths led to thermal dissociation of seafloor methane hydrates providing the isotopically depleted carbon that produced the carbon isotopic excursion.
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