The importance of groundwater discharge to the methane budgets of nearshore and continental shelf waters of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 4735-4746

  Bugna, Glynnis C ^a   Chanton, Jeffrey P ^a   Cable, Jaye E ^a,b   Burnett, William C ^a   Cable, Peter H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS SEEPAGES; GROUNDWATER; METHANE; NEARSHORE BUDGET; SEEPAGE; SUBMARINE DISCHARGE;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0030435923     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(96)00290-6     Document Type: Article

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