Gerald R. Dickens

Research interests

Publications

• The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database

  Geoscientific model development · 2019 · 10.5194/gmd-12-3149-2019

• Down the Rabbit Hole: toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other past hyperthermal events

  Climate of the past · 2011 · 10.5194/cp-7-831-2011

• Carbon dioxide forcing alone insufficient to explain Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum warming

  Nature Geoscience · 2009 · 10.1038/ngeo578

• Eustatic variations during the Paleocene‐Eocene greenhouse world

  Paleoceanography · 2008 · 10.1029/2008pa001615

• An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

  Nature · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06588

• Multiple early Eocene hyperthermals: Their sedimentary expression on the New Zealand continental margin and in the deep sea

  Geology · 2007 · 10.1130/g23648a.1

• Environmental precursors to rapid light carbon injection at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary

  Nature · 2007 · 10.1038/nature06400

• The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature04800

• Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature05043

• Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature04692

• Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

  Nature · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04668

• Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments

  Science · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1101155

• Three-dimensional distribution of gas hydrate beneath southern Hydrate Ridge: constraints from ODP Leg 204

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2004 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.03.035

• Co-existence of gas hydrate, free gas, and brine within the regional gas hydrate stability zone at Hydrate Ridge (Oregon margin): evidence from prolonged degassing of a pressurized core

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2004 · 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.03.028

• The Apectodinium acme and terrestrial discharge during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum: new palynological, geochemical and calcareous nannoplankton observations at Tawanui, New Zealand

  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2003 · 10.1016/s0031-0182(03)00334-1

• Rethinking the global carbon cycle with a large, dynamic and microbially mediated gas hydrate capacitor

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2003 · 10.1016/s0012-821x(03)00325-x

• Sulfate profiles and barium fronts in sediment on the Blake Ridge: present and past methane fluxes through a large gas hydrate reservoir

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2001 · 10.1016/s0016-7037(00)00556-1

• The Latest Miocene–Early Pliocene biogenic bloom: a revised Indian Ocean perspective

  Marine Geology · 1999 · 10.1016/s0025-3227(99)00057-2

• The Source and Fate of Massive Carbon Input During the Latest Paleocene Thermal Maximum

  Science · 1999 · 10.1126/science.286.5444.1531

• Thermodynamic and pore water halogen constraints on gas hydrate distribution at ODP Site 997 (Blake Ridge)

  Chemical Geology · 1999 · 10.1016/s0009-2541(98)00152-1

• Methane hydrate stability in pore water: A simple theoretical approach for geophysical applications

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1997 · 10.1029/96jb02941

• A blast of gas in the latest Paleocene: Simulating first-order effects of massive dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate

  Geology · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0259:abogit>2.3.co;2

• Direct measurement of in situ methane quantities in a large gas-hydrate reservoir

  Nature · 1997 · 10.1038/385426a0

• Dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate as a cause of the carbon isotope excursion at the end of the Paleocene

  Paleoceanography · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1029/95pa02087

• Methane hydrate stability in seawater

  Geophysical Research Letters · 1994 · 10.1029/94gl01858

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