Clathrate eustasy: Methane hydrate melting as a mechanism for geologically rapid sea-level fall

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 915-918

  Bratton, John F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS HYDRATES; HYDRATION; MELTING; METHANE; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; THERMAL EXPANSION;

COMBINED EFFECT; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL INVENTORIES; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; MARINE SEDIMENTS; METHANE HYDRATES; SEA-LEVEL DROPS;

SEA LEVEL;

CLATHRATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUSTACY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 0033427609     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0915:CEMHMA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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