Methane concentration profiles in a lake with a permanently anoxic hypolimnion (Lake Lugano, Switzerland-Italy)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 201-209

  Liu, Rongming ^a   Hofmann, Annette ^a   Gülaçar, Fazil O ^a   Favarger, Pierre Yves ^a   Dominik, Janusz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Ctr d'Etud Sci Naturelles l'E   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anoxic water; Biogenic methane; Fluxes; Lake Lugano; Methane; Water column

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; LAKE; METHANE; ZONATION;

ITALY; SWITZERLAND, LAKE LUGANO;

EID: 0030427512     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(96)00090-3     Document Type: Article

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