Sustained and intensified lacustrine methane cycling during Early Permian climate warming - Nature.com

This study reports the occurrence of sustained and intensified microbial CH4 cycling in a giant lake in northwestern China during Early Permian climate warming. Lacustrine CH4 emissions may have contributed to the end of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age.

Age and stratigraphic constraints Samples were collected from the Lucaogou Formation at the Jingjingzigou section along the southern margin of the Junggar Basin (Fig. 1 and Supplementary Fig. 1) for… [+21548 chars]

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