2009May17: Scientists on a NOAA research vessel discover a methane plume 1,400 meters high at the seafloor off the coast of California (Science News).
Reference: Science News http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46526/title/Bubblin%E2%80%99_plume
Image Description: Methane plume (inset arrow) discovered off coast of California. Image Credit: Gardner, J. V., Malik, M. A., Walker, S. (2009) Plume 1400 Meters High Discovered at the Seafloor off the Northern California Margin, EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 90, No. 32, pp. 275 – 275. Image Location: Science News http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46526/title/Bubblin%E2%80%99_plume Image Permission: This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. However, it is believed that the use of this work to illustrate the subject in question, Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, on Interlinked Challenges, hosted on servers in the United States by Michigan State University, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.
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