Massive dissociation of gas hydrate during a Jurassic oceanic anoxic event

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6794, 2000, Pages 392-395

  Hesselbo, Stephen P ^a   Gröcke, Darren R ^a   Jenkyns, Hugh C ^a   Bjerrum, Christian J ^b   Farrimond, Paul ^c   Morgans Bell, Helen S ^a   Green, Owen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METHANE; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; GAS HYDRATE; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; METHANE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; BIOSPHERE; DISSOCIATION; FOSSIL; GAS; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0342756742     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35019044     Document Type: Article

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