Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2023)

Evidence of Arctic methane emissions across the mid-Pleistocene

  • Giuliana Panieri,
  • Jochen Knies,
  • Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta,
  • Amicia L. Lee,
  • Carsten J. Schubert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00772-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Episodic methane leakage events from the seafloor of the Arctic–Atlantic gateway region occurred before and during the mid-Pleistocene transition, suggesting foraminiferal stable carbon isotope and source-specific biomarker analyses of borehole samples.