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Evidence for massive emission of methane from a deep‐water gas field during the Pliocene

View ORCID ProfileMartino Foschi, Joseph A. Cartwright, View ORCID ProfileChristopher W. MacMinn, and View ORCID ProfileGiuseppe Etiope
PNAS November 10, 2020 117 (45) 27869-27876; first published October 26, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001904117
Martino Foschi
aDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, OX1 3AN Oxford, United Kingdom;
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  1. Edited by Andrea Rinaldo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, and approved September 11, 2020 (received for review January 31, 2020)

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vol. 117 no. 45 27869-27876
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001904117
PubMed: 
33106401

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National Academy of Sciences
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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  • Published in issue November 10, 2020.
  • Published first October 26, 2020.

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  1. Martino Foschia,1,
  2. Joseph A. Cartwrighta,
  3. Christopher W. MacMinnb, and
  4. Giuseppe Etiopec,d
  1. aDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, OX1 3AN Oxford, United Kingdom;
  2. bDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, OX1 3PJ Oxford, United Kingdom;
  3. cIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma 2, 00143 Rome, Italy;
  4. dFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, 4002949 Cluj‐Napoca, Romania
  1. Edited by Andrea Rinaldo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, and approved September 11, 2020 (received for review January 31, 2020)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: martino.foschi{at}earth.ox.ac.uk.
  • Author contributions: M.F., J.A.C., and C.W.M. designed research; M.F. and C.W.M. performed research; M.F., J.A.C., C.W.M., and G.E. analyzed data; and M.F. and C.W.M. wrote the paper with contributions from J.A.C. and G.E.

  • The authors declare no competing interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.2001904117/-/DCSupplemental.

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