Carbon isotopic distribution of methane in deep-sea hydrothermal plume, Myojin Knoll Caldera, Izu-Bonin arc: Implications for microbial methane oxidation in the oceans and applications to heat flux estimation

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 64, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2439-2452

  Tsunogai, Urumu ^a,b   Yoshida, Naohiro ^a,b   Ishibashi, Junichiro ^c   Gamo, Toshitaka ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DEEP SEA; HEAT FLUX; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; METHANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033926195     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00374-4     Document Type: Article

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