Gas Composition of Fluid Inclusions from the Mori Geothermal Reservoir, Southwestern Hokkaido, Japan

Resource Geology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 283-291

  Muramatsu, Yoichi ^a   Komatsu, Ryo ^b,c   Sawaki, Takayuki ^d   Sasaki, Munetake ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JMC Geothermal Engineering Co   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluid inclusion; Gas analysis; Gas evolution; Microthermometry; Mori geothermal field; Quadrupole mass spectrometer

Indexed keywords

ANHYDRITE; BOREHOLE STABILITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DEGASSING; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GEOTHERMOMETRY; HALITE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; QUARTZ;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 0031321371     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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