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On the formation of hydrothermal vents and cold seeps in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Wischhofstraße
1–3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
Christian Hensen
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Wischhofstraße
1–3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
Mark Schmidt
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Wischhofstraße
1–3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
Volker Liebetrau
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Wischhofstraße
1–3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
Florian Scholz
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Wischhofstraße
1–3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
Mechthild Doll
Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Klagenfurter-Straße 4, 28359 Bremen,
Germany
Longhui Deng
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich,
Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Annika Fiskal
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich,
Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Mark A. Lever
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich,
Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Chih-Chieh Su
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4,
Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Stefan Schloemer
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Stilleweg 2,
30655 Hannover, Germany
Sudipta Sarkar
Department of Earth and Climate Science, Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research Pune, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Maharashtra-411008, India
Volker Thiel
Geobiology, Geoscience Centre, University of Göttingen,
Goldschmidtstr. 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Christian Berndt
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Wischhofstraße
1–3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
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Short summary
Abrupt climate changes in Earth’s history might have been triggered by magmatic intrusions into organic-rich sediments, which can potentially release large amounts of greenhouse gases. In the Guaymas Basin, vigorous hydrothermal venting at the ridge axis and off-axis inactive vents show that magmatic intrusions are an effective way to release carbon but must be considered as very short-lived processes in a geological sense. These results need to be taken into account in future climate models.
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