Use of dissolved and vapor-phase gases to investigate methanogenic degradation of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in the subsurface

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Amos, Richard T ^a   Mayer, K Ulrich ^a   Bekins, Barbara A ^b   Delin, Geoffrey N ^c   Williams, Randi L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARGON; CARBON; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DATA ACQUISITION; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; METHANE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION;

CARBON MASS; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOTROPIC ZONES; VAPOR-PHASE GASES;

HYDROCARBONS;

CONTAMINATED LAND; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; METHANOGENESIS; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SATURATED MEDIUM; VADOSE ZONE;

BEMIDJI; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15444366132     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003433     Document Type: Article

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