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TI Intermediate water warming caused methane hydrate instability in South China Sea during past interglacials
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AF Li, Niu
   Wang, Xudong
   Feng, Junxi
   Chen, Fang
   Zhou, Yang
   Wang, Maoyu
   Chen, Tianyu
   Bayon, Germain
   Peckmann, Jörn
   Cheng, Hai
   Edwards, R. Lawrence
   Chen, Duofu
   Feng, Dong
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C1 Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Innovation Academy of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
   Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
   Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
   Ministry of Land and Resources, Key Laboratory of Marine Mineral Resources, Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guangzhou 510075, China
   State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
   IFREMER, Marine Geosciences Unit, F-29280 Plouzané, France
   Institute for Geology, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
   Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710054, China
   State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China
   Key Laboratory of Karst Dynamics, Ministry of Land and Resources, Institute of Karst Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Guilin 541004, China
   Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
C2 CHINESE ACAD SCI, CHINA
   QINGDAO NATL LAB MARINE SCI & TECHNOL QNLM, CHINA
   UNIV SHANGHAI OCEAN, CHINA
   GUANGZHOU MARINE GEOL SURVEY, CHINA
   UNIV NANJING, CHINA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV HAMBURG, GERMANY
   UNIV XI AN JIAO TONG, CHINA
   CHINESE ACAD SCI, CHINA
   CHINESE ACAD GEOLOGICAL SCI, CHINA
   UNIV MINNESOTA, USA
SI BREST
SE PDG-REM-GEOOCEAN-ASTRE
UM GEO-OCEAN
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
   copubli-europe
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 4.9
TC 1
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00883/99492/109623.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB Methane hydrates are widely distributed along continental margins, representing a potential source of methane to the ocean and atmosphere, possibly influencing Earth’s climate. Yet, little is known about the response of methane hydrates to global climate change, especially at the timescale of glacial-interglacial cycles. Here we present a chronology of methane seepage from seep carbonates derived from a series of tens to hundreds of meters long hydrate-bearing sediment records from the South China Sea, drilled at water depths of 664−871 m. We find that six out of seven episodes of intense methane seepage during the last 440,000 years were related to hydrate dissociation, all coinciding with major interglacials, the so-called Marine Isotope Stages 1, 5e, 7c, 9c, and 11c. Using numerical modeling, we show that these events of methane hydrate instability were possibly triggered by the rapid warming of intermediate waters by ∼2.5−3.5 °C in the South China Sea. This finding provides direct evidence for the sensitivity of the deep marine methane hydrate reservoir to glacial-interglacial climatic and oceanographic cyclicity. 
PY 2024
PD MAR
SO Geological Society Of America Bulletin
SN 0016-7606
PU Geological Society of America
VL 136
IS 2-3
UT 001190343600001
BP 917
EP 927
DI 10.1130/B36859.1
ID 99492
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