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 …

Cold seep systems in the South China Sea: An overview

D Feng, JW Qiu, Y Hu, J Peckmann, H Guan… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2018 - Elsevier
Three decades after the discovery of cold seep systems, various sites of hydrocarbon
seepage have been found in the South China Sea (SCS). Over the past decade, these sites …

[HTML][HTML] Deglaciation of the Eurasian ice sheet complex

H Patton, A Hubbard, K Andreassen, A Auriac… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Eurasian ice sheet complex (EISC) was the third largest ice mass during the Last
Glacial Maximum with a span of over 4500 km and responsible for around 20 m of eustatic …

Massive blow-out craters formed by hydrate-controlled methane expulsion from the Arctic seafloor

K Andreassen, A Hubbard, M Winsborrow, H Patton… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Widespread methane release from thawing Arctic gas hydrates is a major concern, yet the
processes, sources, and fluxes involved remain unconstrained. We present geophysical …

Ice sheets matter for the global carbon cycle

JL Wadham, JR Hawkings, L Tarasov… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The cycling of carbon on Earth exerts a fundamental influence upon the greenhouse gas
content of the atmosphere, and hence global climate over millennia. Until recently, ice …

Authigenic carbonates from newly discovered active cold seeps on the northwestern slope of the South China Sea: Constraints on fluid sources, formation …

Q Liang, Y Hu, D Feng, J Peckmann, L Chen… - Deep Sea Research …, 2017 - Elsevier
Authigenic carbonates recovered from two newly discovered active cold seeps on the
northwestern slope of the South China Sea have been studied using petrography …

[HTML][HTML] The build-up, configuration, and dynamical sensitivity of the Eurasian ice-sheet complex to Late Weichselian climatic and oceanic forcing

H Patton, A Hubbard, K Andreassen… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Eurasian ice-sheet complex (EISC) was the third largest ice mass during the Last
Glacial Maximum (LGM), after the Antarctic and North American ice sheets. Despite its …

Gas hydrate dissociation off Svalbard induced by isostatic rebound rather than global warming

K Wallmann, M Riedel, WL Hong, H Patton… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Methane seepage from the upper continental slopes of Western Svalbard has previously
been attributed to gas hydrate dissociation induced by anthropogenic warming of ambient …

An Arctic natural oil seep investigated from space to the seafloor

G Panieri, C Argentino, SP Ramalho, F Vulcano… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to climate change, decreasing ice cover and increasing industrial activities, Arctic
marine ecosystems are expected to face higher levels of anthropogenic stress. To sustain …

A 160,000-year-old history of tectonically controlled methane seepage in the Arctic

T Himmler, D Sahy, T Martma, G Bohrmann… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The geological factors controlling gas release from Arctic deep-water gas reservoirs through
seabed methane seeps are poorly constrained. This is partly due to limited data on the …