Aqueous geochemistry of low molecular weight hydrocarbons at elevated temperatures and pressures: Constraints from mineral buffered laboratory experiments

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1641-1664

  Seewald, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

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HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROCARBON; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; IRON; LABORATORY METHOD; MINERAL; ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 0034998054     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00544-0     Document Type: Article

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