Over 500 gas plumes found to be bubbling up in the ocean along the eastern US coast
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 06:30
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) —A small team of researchers in the U.S. has discovered the presence of 570 bubble plumes along the Atlantic coast of the U.S. between North Carolina and Massachusetts—the plumes are believed to be methane seeps. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team describes their study of the seafloor and what the discovery of the plumes may mean for global warming.