Down the Rabbit Hole: Toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other past hyperthermal events

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 831-846

  Dickens, G R ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DATA SET; DEEP SEA; DISSOLUTION; EOCENE; GAS HYDRATE; METHANE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXIDATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEAFLOOR; SULFUR CYCLE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 80051680356     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-831-2011     Document Type: Article

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