Sentences with phrase «as taliks»
Shakhova's team said one gigaton of methane now escapes annually from the sediments, largely through a growing network of crevices known as taliks in the Arctic permafrost.
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Parazoo NC, Koven CD, Lawrence DM, Romanovsky V, Miller CE (2018) Detecting the permafrost carbon feedback: talik formation and increased cold - season respiration as precursors to sink - to - source transitions.
We have shown that areas of the ESAS affected by thermokarst [permafrost melting], submerged taliks and some other processes could serve as migration pathways for methane to escape to the water column and further to the atmosphere.»
The importance of such thaw - discontinuities can not be underplayed in a model of catastrophic devolatilisation (Shakhova, 2014), as illustrated by Mars where violent degassing equivalent to 20 Yamal explosions per km ² occurs through sub-mound palaeo - taliks alone (e.g., Figure above).