Modeling the global carbon cycle with a gas hydrate capacitor: Significance for the latest paleocene thermal maximum

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 124, Issue , 2000, Pages 19-38

  Dickens, Gerald R ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85040221238     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM124p0019     Document Type: Chapter

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