Hundreds of Huge Craters Discovered in the Arctic Ocean
The potentially ominous depressions in the sea floor formed after ice sheets melted, letting trapped methane blow out.
When set out for the Barents Sea, she knew she would find a lot of methane. The cold, shallow body of water just north of Norway meets Russia is home to oil and gas fields, and methane—the main component of natural gas—naturally seeps out of the seafloor here. Andreassen, a marine geologist at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, also knew from surveys in the 90s that she’d find some
