Authigenic carbonates derived from oxidized methane vented from the Makran accretionary prism off Pakistan

Marine Geology

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 55-77

  Von Rad, Ulrich ^a   Rösch, Heinrich ^a   Berner, Ulrich ^a   Geyh, Mebus ^b   Marchig, Vesna ^a   Schulz, Hartmut ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b Niedersachsisches Landesamt fur B   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARBONATE; CARBONATES; COLD SEEP; COLD SEEPS; METHANE; OXIDATION; OXIDISED METHANE; POCKMARK; POCKMARKS;

ARABIAN SEA, MAKRAN ACCRETIONARY PRISM;

EID: 0030302165     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(96)00017-5     Document Type: Article

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