Questions tagged [clathrates]
Clathrate hydrates, or gas clathrates, gas hydrates, clathrates, hydrates, etc., are crystalline water-based solids physically resembling ice, in which small non-polar molecules (typically gases) or polar molecules with large hydrophobic moieties are trapped inside "cages" of hydrogen bonded, frozen water molecules.
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Do carbon dioxide hydrates exist in nature?
Do CO2 hydrates exist in nature? If so, how much carbon could they contain?
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Is it feasible to 'harvest' the clathrates from the permafrost before they evaporate?
We can see that there are large buildups of methane clathrates in permafrost regions.
Climate scientist James Hansen has predicted that the release of the permafrost methane clathrates could cause ...
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Is there evidence to suggest that the release of methane clathrates in permafrost regions will impact climate change?
We can see that there are large buildups of methane clathrates in permafrost regions.
Climate scientist James Hansen has predicted that the release of the permafrost methane clathrates could cause ...
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Do we know how large deposits of methane clathrates were formed in permafrost regions?
We can see that there are large buildups of methane clathrates in permafrost regions. This seems different to the buildups of natural gas which fracking releases, which appear to have just come from ...
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Release mechanism for methane clathrate at the PETM
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is a well-studied warming event near the Paleocene-Eocene boundary.
It is characterized by its extreme warming rate: from onset to recovery the event lasted ...
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How much methane clathrates are buried in continental deposits?
Methane clathrates are
solid clathrate compound (more specifically, a clathrate hydrate) in which a large amount of methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water, forming a solid similar ...
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