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Do fish fart?

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Went for a mule ride in abandon gravel pit. A place in one of the lakes is making many bubbles. Happens often. Sometimes it might be a turtle on the bottom. I really would like to take a match to one of the bubbles and see if it burns. Two miles due south is an oil field. About a dozen oil wells. One time it produced so many bubbles I got a little for a few minutes non stop, I got worried thinking something might blow up. It was like someone had an air hose connected to a large compressor.

The white spots in pic are the bubbles. Pic quality isn't that great. So can fish fart this much? Or is it methane bubbling up from the ground? Bubbles seem to be mostly concentrated in this one area. The ground is mostly yellow sand and gravel. The Wabash river less than a mile away. When the river is high the water come up through the sand. The water is on it's way down.

So what's making all the bubbles?
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Probably a turtle walking across the bottom. As his feet push into the mud, methane is released from rotting plant matter. I burnt all the hair off my hand and arm when I was a kid. I was jabbing a tick in the mud at night and lighting the gases that bubbled up. I learned the hard way to tape a candle on the end of a long stick to light it.
 

Media and environmentalists either don't know or willingly ignore how much methane and crude seep naturally to the surface. It would reduce the effectiveness of the fear mongering used to scare donations. from middle class, middle aged women worried about the world their grand children will live in.
Opposition against pipelines , tankers , trains and global warming would collapse .
 
I'm guessing methane gas or something from the fermentation of submerged vegetation. But being near oil fields, anything is possible!

Think I would stay away from it! Could be toxic, flammable, oxygen depleting, who knows?

Several years ago I went exploring Caddo lake on my Seadoo. The lake is on the Texas/Louisiana border. It is mostly swamp with man made canals, but there is a portion that is open water shallows.

There are many remains of abandoned oil well pump jacks. Obviously low budget operations from long ago, before there was little if any regulation. I came across a section of water that was literately boiling with some kind of gas coming from below! Scared me, because I came upon it, and before I knew it was in the middle of it! I just cranked on more throttle to get outta there, but there was so much bubbling the pump caught air and I actually slowed down! I made it through, but was sure running a bunch of "what if's" through my mind!
 
I'm leaning towards methane, either from vegetation on bottom or possible leaking from underground. A few miles north they put down a well looked for shale gas.

If oil was leaking I would think there would be an oil film on water.

The one time, the bubble were intense. Perhaps one very large turtle farted.
 
High school chemistry teacher would end his class at the end of the year with a BANG. He would make a very large soap bubble, about the size of a basked ball, filled with hydrogen and oxygen. Used a meter stick with a candle. The fire ball would shake the dust loose on suspended ceiling. Scare the students. Then they always wanted more.
 
Is'nt lost methane/natural gas the reason for a standing flame around oil fields and distribution points? To burn off any that escapes.??????? gobble
 
I'm guessing its some people from outer space that can only live under water and they can only breath hydrogen so when they suck in water they separate the hydrogen from
the oxygen and the oxygen comes to the surface.We've never knowing seen one as they morf into creatures that look like snapping turtles.
 
Two natural gas pipelines run through a wetland on the property. One was put through in 1949, which exploded in 2014, the other one was put through in 1960. They run side by side of each other, about 25 feet apart. This is what the water looks like in the wetland. I do not think the pipelines have anything to do with the oil sheen on the water though....
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Pond bubbles sometimes along with a white foam is caused by a build up of decaying organic materials on the pond bottom along with the heat of summer heating the water up. The organic material breaks down better in warm water.
You can add natural bacteria to the water to deal with the problem.
The bubbles are not dangerous just more of a sign you have to much muck in the bottom of your pond.
 
So is it in the woods? Looks like edge
of woods. I may get to find out as the
bear spotted in southern Indiana is
moved into my county. If I see him in
the woods I may be the one s..ting in
the woods!
 
You never know, could be aliens. Could be power company using mother earth as a ground and there is electrolysis occurring by the current running through the ground. This hole is about 40 ft below grade. That would explain fish jumping too, don't you think. GROUNDING PROBLEM. Power company is only a few miles away on the other side of the Wabash river. Then there is another power company about 10 miles north and another about 30 south. Think the river is a better conductor? Moving water is called CURRENT RIGHT? WOW we may come up with all the world's problems here. Have a good laugh.
 
Wasn't there some research on renewable energy sources using some kind of grass to make bio fuels? Not really sure of anything but I'm think it was switch grass or some kind of grass.
 
Lol, our welding instructor would demonstrate the flammability of acetelene by filling a balloon to softball size and then touching it off...cleared the dust off of the steel roof trusses! We asked him to fill it bigger but he said (with a sheepish grin) "No, that breaks windows!"
 
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