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« on: August 23, 2008, 01:47:57 am »

Scientists Map 'New Frontier' Deep Within Ocean
By JEFFREY GOLD, AP



Mel Evans, AP
"The Hudson Canyon is on the doorstep of one of the largest metropolitan areas of the world," Professor Peter Rona said. "It is an exploration frontier."




NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Sept. 4) - Although just 100 miles off the New Jersey-New York coast, the features of the Hudson Canyon are largely hidden beneath hundreds of feet of water.
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A four-year study using high-tech tools has produced maps of an undersea region the size of Connecticut. Scientists said the maps will allow them to study many things, including whether methane gas trapped in frozen sediment below the sea floor is escaping and exacerbating global warming.

Also of interest is whether gas releases could spark undersea landslides that produce tsunamis. In addition to producing giant waves, landslides could cleave the undersea phone cables that handle much of the nation's overseas communications, said Peter A. Rona, a Rutgers University professor who led the team that produced the maps.

It is also possible that the methane could be harvested as an energy source, although no technology yet exists to extract the gas, which is dispersed under the ocean floor over millions of square miles in this and other areas of the world, Rona said.
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