Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian environmental crisis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 490-500

  Svensen, Henrik ^a   Planke, Sverre ^a,b   Polozov, Alexander G ^a,c   Schmidbauer, Norbert ^d   Corfu, Fernando ^a   Podladchikov, Yuri Y ^a   Jamtveit, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Forskningsparken   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS   (Russian Federation)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

end Permian; gas venting; Siberian Traps; Tunguska Basin

Indexed keywords

AMAZON BASINS; ATMOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETIONS; BASIN SEDIMENTS; END-PERMIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES; EVAPORITE; EVAPORITES; FIELD WORKS; FLOOD BASALTS; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GAS RELEASES; GREENHOUSE GASSES; HEATING EXPERIMENTS; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTIONS; METHYL BROMIDES; METHYL CHLORIDES; ORGANIC MATTERS; OZONE DEPLETIONS; PERMIAN PERIODS; PIPE STRUCTURES; ROCK SALTS; SIBERIAN TRAPS; TRIASSIC; TUNGUSKA BASIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BASALT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEATING; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MILITARY OPERATIONS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; PIPE; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GASES;

EVAPORITE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS FLOW; GAS PRODUCTION; GLOBAL WARMING; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MASS EXTINCTION; OZONE DEPLETION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; SILL; TRIGGER MECHANISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VENTING;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 58149345483     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.015     Document Type: Article

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