The world's most spectacular marine hydrocarbon seeps (Coal Oil Point, Santa Barbara Channel, California): Quantification of emissions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C9, 1999, Pages 20703-20711

  Hornafius, J Scott ^a,b   Quigley, Derek ^a   Luyendyk, Bruce P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION; GAS SEEPAGE; HYDROCARBON; METHANE;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

ILEX;

EID: 0033567573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900148     Document Type: Article

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