Methane hydrate stability and anthropogenic climate change

D Archer - Biogeosciences, 2007 - bg.copernicus.org
Methane frozen into hydrate makes up a large reservoir of potentially volatile carbon below
the sea floor and associated with permafrost soils. This reservoir intuitively seems …

Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

M Pagani, N Pedentchouk, M Huber, A Sluijs… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Abstract The Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum represents a period of rapid, extreme
global warming∼ 55 million years ago, superimposed on an already warm world,,. This …

Two massive, rapid releases of carbon during the onset of the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal maximum

GJ Bowen, BJ Maibauer, MJ Kraus, U Röhl… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The Earth's climate abruptly warmed by 5–8° C during the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal
maximum (PETM), about 55.5 million years ago,. This warming was associated with a …

Orbital climate forcing of δ13C excursions in the late Paleocene–early Eocene (chrons C24n–C25n)

BS Cramer, JD Wright, DV Kent… - Paleoceanography, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution stable carbon isotope records for upper Paleocene–lower Eocene sections
at Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1051 and 690 and Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 550 and …

Extreme warming of mid-latitude coastal ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Inferences from TEX86 and isotope data

JC Zachos, S Schouten, S Bohaty… - …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Changes in sea surface temperature (SST) during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum (PETM) have been estimated primarily from oxygen isotope and Mg/Ca records …

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 …

Stable carbon isotopes in paleoceanography: atmosphere, oceans, and sediments

A Mackensen, G Schmiedl - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbon is one of the key elements in organisms and non-living compounds on Earth.
Carbon dioxide and methane are important greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, dissolved …

Chapter eighteen the use of oxygen and carbon isotopes of foraminifera in paleoceanography

AC Ravelo, C Hillaire-Marcel - Developments in marine geology, 2007 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the factors that must be taken into account when
interpreting paleoceanographic records derived from measurements of the oxygen and …

Beyond methane: towards a theory for the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum

JA Higgins, DP Schrag - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2006 - Elsevier
Extreme global warmth and an abrupt negative carbon isotope excursion during the
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) have been attributed to a massive release of …

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 …