Sentences with phrase «from large igneous provinces»

They have all been associated with huge carbon emissions, from Large Igneous Provinces (Some debate on that regarding PETM).

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In Earth's past the trigger for these greenhouse gas emissions was often unusually massive volcanic eruptions known as «Large Igneous Provinces,» with knock - on effects that included huge releases of CO2 and methane from organic - rich sediments.

Proposed hypothe - ses include (i) biogenic methane from gas hydrate dissociation (Dickens et al., 1995,1997); (ii) CO2 from extensive oxidation terrestrial organic carbon (Kurtz et al., 2003; Deconto et al., 2012); (iii) thermogenic methane derived from emplacement of a large 25 igneous province (LIP) in the North Atlantic (Svensen et al., 2010) or combinations of such sources (Sluijs et al., 2007; Panchuk et al., 2008).