Methane may be answer to 56-million-year question: Ocean could have contained enough methane to cause drastic climate change
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 9 November, 2011
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The release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago has been linked to the greatest change in global climate since a dinosaur-killing asteroid presumably hit Earth nine million years earlier. New calculations by researchers show that this long-controversial scenario is quite possible....