Sustained and intensified lacustrine methane cycling during Early Permian climate warming

Funing Sun; Wenxuan Hu; Jian Cao; Xiaolin Wang; Zhirong Zhang; Jahandar Ramezani; Shuzhong Shen

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32438-2

Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Sustained and intensified lacustrine methane cycling during Early Permian climate warming

Funing Sun,
Wenxuan Hu,
Jian Cao,
Xiaolin Wang,
Zhirong Zhang,
Jahandar Ramezani,
Shuzhong Shen

Affiliations

Funing Sun: State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
Wenxuan Hu: State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
Jian Cao: State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
Xiaolin Wang: State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
Zhirong Zhang: Wuxi Institute of Petroleum Geology, Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute, SINOPEC
Jahandar Ramezani: Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shuzhong Shen: State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32438-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

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This study reports the occurrence of sustained and intensified microbial CH4 cycling in a giant lake in northwestern China during Early Permian climate warming. Lacustrine CH4 emissions may have contributed to the end of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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