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Chunk of Gas Hydrate

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Hands pull a chunk of frozen ice from a core collection tube, the ice is lumpy and interspersed with dark sediment.
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In 2010, USGS researcher Brian Edwards recovers white chunks of gas hydrate (methane ice) mixed with gray sediment from a metal core sample tube retrieved from the seafloor in the Arctic Ocean at a water depth of approximately 8,000 feet.

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