Repeated pulses of vertical methane flux recorded in glacial sediments from the southeast Bering Sea

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Cook, Mea S ^a   Keigwin, Lloyd D ^b   Birgel, Daniel ^c,d   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^c  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE VARIATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; DIAGENESIS; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL; METHANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OPAL; OVERPRESSURE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

BERING SEA; CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 79956354310     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001993     Document Type: Article

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