Hydrate Ridge is an accretionary thrust clathrate hydrate formation, meaning it has been made of sediment scraped off of subducting oceanic plate. It is approx. 200 m (700 ft) high, and located 100 km (62 mi) offshore of Oregon.[1][2][3] At hydrate formations, methane is trapped in crystallized water structures. Such methane transforms into the gaseous phase and seeps into the ocean at this site, which has been a popular location of study since its discovery in 1986.[4] Hydrate Ridge also supports a methane-driven benthic community.[5]
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- ^ "Hydrate Ridge EXperiment 2004 (HyREX04)". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ Johnson, J.E.; Goldfinger, C.; Tréhu, A.M.; Bangs, N.L.B.; Torres, M.E.; and Chevallier, J. "North-south variability in the history of deformation and fluid venting across Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia margin." In Tréhu, A.M.; Bohrmann, G.; Torres, M.E.; and Colwell, F.S. (Eds.). Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 204 (2006): College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–16. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.204.125.2006.
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