Spatial and temporal variations of diffuse CO2 degassing at the Santa Ana-Izalco-Coatepeque volcanic complex, El Salvador, Central America

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 375, Issue , 2004, Pages 135-146

  Salazar, José M L ^a   Hernández, Pedro A ^a   Pérez, Nemesio M ^a   Olmos, Rodolfo ^b   Barahona, Francisco ^b   Cartagena, Rafael ^b   Soriano, Tomás ^b   López, Dina L ^c   Sumino, Hirochika ^d   Notsu, Kenji ^d  

^a Instituto Tecnologico y de Enegias Renovables   (Spain)

^b University of El Salvador   (El Salvador)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Diffuse degassing; El Salvador; Santa Ana Izalco Coatepeque; Spatial distribution; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DEGASSING; DOMES; ISOTOPES; LIME; LIMESTONE; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES; WIND;

ACCESSIBILITY PROBLEMS; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; DIFFUSE DEGASSING; EL SALVADOR; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; SANTA ANA-IZALCO-COATEPEQUE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; DEGASSING; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANO; VOLCANOLOGY;

COATEPEQUE CALDERA; EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA]; SANTA ANA [EL SALVADOR];

EID: 33646360261     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2375-2.135     Document Type: Article

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