Repeated pulses of vertical methane flux recorded in glacial sediments from the southeast Bering Sea

• Main Authors: Mea S. Cook, Lloyd D. Keigwin, Daniel Birgel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Kennett; Dansgaard-Oeschger events; Methane hydrate
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.468.999

[1] There is controversy over the role of marine methane hydrates in atmospheric methane concentrations and climate change during the last glacial period. In this study of two sediment cores from the southeast Bering Sea (700 m and 1467 m water depth), we identify multiple episodes during the last g...