Carbon cycling within the upper methanogenic zone of continental rise sediments: An example from the methane-rich sediments overlying the blake ridge gas hydrate deposits

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 299-311

  Borowski, Walter S ^a   Paull, Charles K ^a   Ussier III, William ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Blake Ridge; Carbon cycling; Continentalrise; Gas hydrate; Methane; Methanogenesis

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON CYCLING; CONTINENTAL RISE; MARINE SEDIMENT; METHANE; SEDIMENTS; SULPHATE-METHANE BOUNDARY;

ATLANTIC, BLAKE RIDGE; ATLANTIC, CAROLINA RISE;

EID: 0030775414     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4203(97)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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