Pulses of carbon dioxide emissions from intracrustal faults following climatic warming

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 352-358

  Kampman, Niko ^a   Burnside, Neil M ^b   Shipton, Zoe K ^c   Chapman, Hazel J ^a   Nicholl, Joe A ^a   Ellam, Rob M ^d   Bickle, Mike J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FRACTURE INITIATION; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEALING; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84860431262     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1451     Document Type: Article

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