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Retreat of the ice followed by millennia of methane release
Description: Studies have previously shown that ice sheets and methane hydrates are closely connected, and that release of methane from the seafloor has followed the retreat of the Barents Sea ice sheet some 20 000 years ago. But is all such release of the potent climate gas bound to be catastrophic? Not necessarily, according to a new study. It shows that the methane was indeed released as the ice sheets retreated. However the seepage did not occur in one major pulse, but over a period of 7000 to 10000 years following the initial release. [Source: CAGE (Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate)]
URL: https://cage.uit.no/news/retreat-of-the-ice-followed-by-millennia-of-methane-release/
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Source: CAGE (Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate)
Publish Date: 5/13/2016
Reading Level: Basic
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