Methane may be answer to 56-million-year question: Ocean could have contained enough methane to cause drastic climate change
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 12:31
in Earth & Climate
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 at Rice University show that this long-controversial scenario is quite possible.