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Chapter 1
What are Gas Hydrates?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 What are Gas Hydrates?
1.3 Gas Hydrate Formation, Stability, and Occurrence
1.4 What Forms Do Gas Hydrates Take in Nature?
Chapter 2
Methane Gas Hydrates and the Natural Carbon Cycle
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Methane Generation and Consumption
2.3 A Gas Hydrate Capacitor in the Global Carbon Cycle?
2.4 Life at Marine Methane Seeps
Chapter 3
Assessment of the Sensitivity and Response of Methane Gas Hydrate to Global Climate Change
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Role of Gas Hydrate in Past Climate Change
3.3 Key Issues for Linking Gas Hydrate with Climate Change
3.4 Global Climate Change Projections
3.5 Response of Gas Hydrates to Climate Change
3.6 Review of Sensitivity of Global Gas Hydrate Inventory to Climate Change
3.7 Conclusions
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