Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-7-831-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-7-831-2011
Research article
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05 Aug 2011
Research article |  | 05 Aug 2011

Down the Rabbit Hole: toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other past hyperthermal events

G. R. Dickens

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