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Sampling gas released by gas hydrate breakdown

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center 2015 (approx.)
A woman wearing an orange jumpsuit and hard hat draws a sample with a syringe from a tall cylinder filled with murky water.
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Pamela Swarzenski from the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center sampling gas released by gas hydrate breakdown during a quantitative degassing aboard the drilling vessel Chikyu during the Indian Government’s National Gas Hydrates Program (NGHP-02) drilling expedition offshore from eastern India.

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