Ice Sheets Containing Methane (IMAGE)

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Ice Sheets Containing Methane

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Ice sheets can create, contain and maintain large amounts of gas hydrates, a frozen form of concentrated climate gas methane. The conservative estimate is that Barents Sea Ice sheet contained a 500-meter thick reservoir of gas hydrates. But it may have been over 800 meters thick -- the size of almost three Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other.

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Illustration: Alexey Portnov/CAGE

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