North Siberian lakes: A methane source fueled by pleistocene carbon

Science

Volumn 277, Issue 5327, 1997, Pages 800-802

  Zimov, S A ^a   Voropaev, Y V ^b   Semiletov, I P ^b   Davidov, S P ^a   Prosiannikov, S F ^a   Chapin III, F S ^c   Chapin, M C ^c   Trumbore, S ^d   Tyler, S ^d  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON 14; METHANE;

ATMOSPHERIC METHANE; CARBON; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAKE; METHANE; PLEISTOCENE; SOURCE/SINK;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOLOGY; LAKE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SIBERIA;

EID: 0030843027     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5327.800     Document Type: Article

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