Researchers discover an immense hydrocarbon cycle - Forum

Page 1 of 1 1
Forum moderator: arya, dethalternate

Researchers discover an immense hydrocarbon cycle

Manu Date: Wednesday, 03-February-2021, 9:19 AM | Message # 1 --dragon lord-- Group: undead Messages: 13927 Status: Offline Researchers retrieve water samples from the Sargasso Sea. Credit: David Valentine by Harrison Tasoff, University of California - Santa Barbara Hydrocarbons and petroleum are almost synonymous in environmental science. After all, oil reserves account for nearly all the hydrocarbons we encounter. But the few hydrocarbons that trace their origin to biological sources may play a larger ecological role than scientists originally suspected. A team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution investigated this previously neglected area of oceanography for signs of an overlooked global cycle. They also tested how its existence might impact the ocean's response to oil spills. Read more/full article/source - https://phys.org/news/2021-02-immense-hydrocarbon-world-ocean.html