The interaction of climate change and methane hydrates

CD Ruppel, JD Kessler - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gas hydrate, a frozen, naturally‐occurring, and highly‐concentrated form of methane,
sequesters significant carbon in the global system and is stable only over a range of low …

[HTML][HTML] Climate model and proxy data constraints on ocean warming across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

TD Jones, DJ Lunt, DN Schmidt, A Ridgwell… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Constraining the greenhouse gas forcing, climatic warming and estimates of climate
sensitivity across ancient large transient warming events is a major challenge to the …

Anthropogenic carbon release rate unprecedented during the past 66 million years

RE Zeebe, A Ridgwell, JC Zachos - Nature Geoscience, 2016 - nature.com
Carbon release rates from anthropogenic sources reached a record high of∼ 10 Pg C yr− 1
in 2014. Geologic analogues from past transient climate changes could provide invaluable …

[PDF][PDF] Carbon isotope stratigraphy

MR Saltzman, E Thomas, FM Gradstein - The geologic time scale, 2012 - academia.edu
Variations in the 13C/12C value of total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the world's
oceans through time have been documented through stratigraphic study of marine …

Gas hydrates: past and future geohazard?

M Maslin, M Owen, R Betts, S Day… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Gas hydrates are ice-like deposits containing a mixture of water and gas; the most common
gas is methane. Gas hydrates are stable under high pressures and relatively low …

Environmental precursors to rapid light carbon injection at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary

A Sluijs, H Brinkhuis, S Schouten, SM Bohaty, CM John… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
The start of the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum—a period of exceptional global
warming about 55 million years ago—is marked by a prominent negative carbon isotope …

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

GR Dickens - Climate of the Past, 2011 - cp.copernicus.org
Enormous amounts of 13 C-depleted carbon rapidly entered the exogenic carbon cycle
during the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), as attested to by a …

Oxygen isotopes in foraminifera: Overview and historical review

PN Pearson - The Paleontological Society Papers, 2012 - cambridge.org
Foraminiferal tests are a common component of many marine sediments. The oxygen
isotope ratio (δ18O) of test calcite is frequently used to reconstruct aspects of their life …

North American continental margin records of the Paleocene‐Eocene thermal maximum: Implications for global carbon and hydrological cycling

CM John, SM Bohaty, JC Zachos, A Sluijs… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of the Paleocene‐Eocene thermal maximum (PETM)(∼ 55 Ma), one of the most
rapid and extreme warming events in Earth history, are well characterized in open marine …

Late Paleocene–early Eocene Tethyan carbonate platform evolution—a response to long-and short-term paleoclimatic change

C Scheibner, RP Speijer - Earth-science reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
The early Paleogene experienced the most pronounced long-term warming trend of the
Cenozoic, superimposed by transient warming events such as the Paleocene–Eocene …