Millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to Quaternary climate change
Establishing if past millennial-scale climate change affected the stability of marine methane hydrate is important for our understanding of climatic change and determining the fate of marine hydrates in a future warmer world. We show using three-dimensional seismic data offshore of Mauritania, that...
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ftunivnewcastle:oai:eprint.ncl.ac.uk:240625 2023-05-15T17:11:46+02:00 Millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to Quaternary climate change Davies RJ Morales Maqueda AL Li A Ganopolski A application/pdf https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/fulltext.aspx?url=240625/1BBEC41C-D352-4549-8877-0CD4BF1B1EF1.pdf&pub_id=240625 unknown Geological Society of America Geology Article ftunivnewcastle 2020-06-11T23:38:06Z Establishing if past millennial-scale climate change affected the stability of marine methane hydrate is important for our understanding of climatic change and determining the fate of marine hydrates in a future warmer world. We show using three-dimensional seismic data offshore of Mauritania, that episodic, millennial-scale shifts of the base of the hydrate stability zone can be imaged below the ocean floor. Process modelling suggests the base of the hydrate stability zone should have shallowed and deepened in response to climate change over the last ~150,000 years. Specifically, there is seismic evidence for millennial-scale shifts during the Holocene (~11,700 years) at a temporal resolution that has previously been unrealised. This is the first evidence that millennial-scale climatic cycles caused hydrate formation and dissociation and that hydrate instability should be expected in a warming world. Article in Journal/Newspaper Methane hydrate Newcastle University Library ePrints Service |
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Establishing if past millennial-scale climate change affected the stability of marine methane hydrate is important for our understanding of climatic change and determining the fate of marine hydrates in a future warmer world. We show using three-dimensional seismic data offshore of Mauritania, that episodic, millennial-scale shifts of the base of the hydrate stability zone can be imaged below the ocean floor. Process modelling suggests the base of the hydrate stability zone should have shallowed and deepened in response to climate change over the last ~150,000 years. Specifically, there is seismic evidence for millennial-scale shifts during the Holocene (~11,700 years) at a temporal resolution that has previously been unrealised. This is the first evidence that millennial-scale climatic cycles caused hydrate formation and dissociation and that hydrate instability should be expected in a warming world. |
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Davies RJ Morales Maqueda AL Li A Ganopolski A |
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Davies RJ Morales Maqueda AL Li A Ganopolski A Millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to Quaternary climate change |
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Davies RJ Morales Maqueda AL Li A Ganopolski A |
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Davies RJ |
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Millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to Quaternary climate change |
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Millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to Quaternary climate change |
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Millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to Quaternary climate change |
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Millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to Quaternary climate change |
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Millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to Quaternary climate change |
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millennial-scale shifts in the methane hydrate stability zone due to quaternary climate change |
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Geological Society of America |
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https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/fulltext.aspx?url=240625/1BBEC41C-D352-4549-8877-0CD4BF1B1EF1.pdf&pub_id=240625 |
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