Widespread Warming Before and Elevated Barium Burial During the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence for Methane Hydrate Release?

• Published in: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
• Main Authors: Frieling, J., Peterse, F., Lunt, D. J., Bohaty, S. M., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Reichart, G. ‐J., Sluijs, A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
• Subjects: Research Articles; Maud Rise; Southern Ocean; Methane hydrate
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582550/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018PA003425

Current climate change may induce positive carbon cycle feedbacks that amplify anthropogenic warming on time scales of centuries to millennia. Similar feedbacks might have been active during a phase of carbon cycle perturbation and global warming, termed the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 5...