Geology 23, 527-530 (1995). Dickens, G. R., Down the rabbit hole: Toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other ...

Methane hydrates are extremely difficult to study, and could either be an important energy source or a source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 20 times more potent than CO2.

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The period between gas release events (repeat time ... tonnes of methane — the largest pulses expected from either methane hydrates or hydrothermal vents — could only extend methane residence ...

Microbial methane sources predominate with minor influxes from thermogenic methane offshore Prudhoe Bay and the Mackenzie River delta and may include methane from gas hydrate. Methane oxidation is ...

As China, Japan, and others aim to commercialize methane hydrate, its security implications should be examined.

The methane—normally frozen at great pressure as gas hydrates embedded within subterranean rock—can become dislodged and transform into gaseous bubbles expanding geometrically as they explode ...

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