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New insights into the fate of methane released at the seafloor

Gas bubbles at the sea surface
Gas bubbles at the sea surface close to the crater UK22/4b; German research vessel ALKOR during the ALKOR expedition AL374 in 2006. (Photo: Peter Linke, GEOMAR Kiel)

Joint press release of IOW and GEOMAR about the special issue of the “Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology”, which reports the studies of a crater at the bottom of the North Sea created following a shallow gas blowout in the course of oil exploration in 1990that provides new insights into the fate of methane emissions at the sea floor.

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