Could changing ocean circulation have destabilized methane hydrate at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary?

Paleoceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 8-1-8-12

  Bice, Karen L ^a   Marotzke, Jochem ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eocene; Hydrology; Methane; Modeling; Paleoceanography; Paleocene

Indexed keywords

GAS HYDRATE; METHANE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0036626476     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001pa000678     Document Type: Article

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