Helium and carbon gas geochemistry of pore fluids from the sediment-rich hydrothermal system in Escanaba Trough

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1457-1466

  Ishibashi, Jun Ichiro ^a   Sato, Masanori ^a   Sano, Yuji ^a   Wakita, Hiroshi ^a   Gamo, Toshitaka ^a   Shanks III, Wayne C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FLUIDS; GASES; HELIUM; HYDROCARBONS; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS;

HYDROTHERMAL COMPONENTS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

GAS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HELIUM; HYDROCARBON; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; NATURAL GAS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; POREWATER;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036836674     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(02)00112-9     Document Type: Article

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