CO2-driven ocean circulation changes as an amplifier of Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum hydrate destabilization

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 875-878

  Lunt, Daniel J ^a,b   Valdes, Paul J ^a   Jones, Tom Dunkley ^c,f   Ridgwell, Andy ^a   Haywood, Alan M ^d   Schmidt, Daniela N ^a   Marsh, Robert ^e   Maslin, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; FULLY-COUPLED; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THERMAL DESTABILIZATION; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; HYDRATION; ISOTOPES; METHANE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GAS HYDRATES;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLUTION; GAS HYDRATE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; TRIGGER MECHANISM; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 77958083028     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31184.1     Document Type: Article

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