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Diffraction velocity analysis in a single-channel seismic survey in the Joetsu Basin Available to Purchase
Age variation of pore water iodine in the eastern Nankai Trough, Japan: Evidence for different methane sources in a large gas hydrate field Available to Purchase
Chemostratigraphy of Frasnian-Famennian transition: Possibility of methane hydrate dissociation leading to mass extinction Available to Purchase
Various scenarios have been proposed to explain the Late Devonian mass extinction, foremost among which are bolide impact and sea-level fall. We hereby propose a gas hydrate-induced model based on detailed geochemical and sedimentological data. The period of enhanced organic carbon burial in Iran, in south China, and in subpolar Urals corresponds to a brief negative δ 13 C excursion of 3.5‰ at the Frasnian-Famennian (F-F) transition. Prior to this event, oceanic δ 13 C increased for a period of several million years. However, major perturbations of the carbon geochemical cycle, and corresponding sharp and strong negative spikes of δ 13 C, which require a large input of isotopic light carbon into the ocean, also characterize the boundary horizons. Oxygen isotope ratios show negative excursions of 1.7‰ in south China and 4.1‰ in subpolar Urals that parallel the negative excursions in δ 13 C values. Synchronous negative spikes of δ 18 O are likely to imply a rapid increase of ocean temperature. We propose that the F-F boundary event was ultimately caused by voluminous and abrupt release of methane from marine gas hydrate into the ocean and atmosphere to trigger rapid global warming. Assuming that the total amount of inorganic carbon of the Devonian ocean was 40,000 gigatons (Gt) and δ 13 C of gas hydrate methane was −80‰, only 2600 Gt carbon from the total amount of 10,000 Gt gas hydrate carbon could have changed the oceanic δ 13 C values from +1‰ to −3‰, the observed magnitude of the F-F boundary excursion. Therefore only ∼26% of the gas hydrate could have triggered the boundary events. Widespread rift-related, basaltic volcanism along eastern Laurussia and northern Gondwana during the middle Late Devonian is believed to have contributed greatly to the global warming surrounding the F-F boundary, which in turn would have triggered massive dissociation of methane hydrate, especially if paired with intensive igneous and tectonic activity and rapid sea-level fall.