Rethinking the global carbon cycle with a large, dynamic and microbially mediated gas hydrate capacitor

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 169-183

  Dickens, Gerald R ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Carbon isotopes; Gashydrates; Global change; Methane; Paleocene Ecocene; Phanerozoic

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; GAS HYDRATE; GLOBAL CHANGE; METHANE; PHANEROZOIC;

EID: 0041320939     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00325-X     Document Type: Article

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