Researchers document widespread methane seeps off Oregon coast

[rangerrebew]

Researchers document widespread methane seeps off Oregon coast
May 31, 2018 by Mark Floyd, Oregon State University


For the past two years, scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have surveyed the Pacific Northwest near-shore region mapping sites where underwater bubble streams signify methane gas is being released from the seafloor.

And what they have found is eye-opening. Since the first evidence of underwater methane was discovered in the late 1980s, only about 100 "seep sites" had been identified along the Northwest coast through 2015. They often were discovered by accident, when fishermen would spot anomalies on their fish-finders that turned out to be acoustic reflections of the bubbling methane gas.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-document-widespread-methane-seeps-oregon.html#jCp

[Cyber Liberty]

The Pacific Ocean farts!  Who knew?

[thackney]

Methane seeps are all over the place.

Atlantic Methane Seeps Surprise Scientists
https://www.usgs.gov/news/atlantic-methane-seeps-surprise-scientists

Hundreds of methane seeps along the Atlantic seafloor were remotely imaged through camera and mapping work, but uncertainty remained as to the origin and history of the seepage.

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500 'Champagne' Methane Seeps Discovered Off Pacific Coast
https://www.livescience.com/56556-500-champagne-methane-seeps-discovered.html

About 500 new streams of shimmering methane bubbles have been discovered off the Pacific Northwest coast.

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http://www.coal-seam-gas.com/usa/underwater.htm#.WxA8u0gvw2w

During a recent oceanographic expedition off San Diego, graduate student researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered convincing evidence of a deep-sea site where methane is likely seeping out of the seafloor, the first such finding off San Diego County.

[driftdiver]

Did someone bury some lawyers?

[GtHawk]

They're just to set the mood for when the whales sing their champagne music........a one......an a two............

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Did someone bury some lawyers?

a good one.