Diffuse soil degassing of carbon dioxide, radon, and mercury at San Miguel volcano, El Salvador

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 375, Issue , 2004, Pages 203-212

  Cartagena, Rafael ^a   Olmos, Rodolfo ^a   López, Dina L ^b   Soriano, Tomás ^a   Barahona, Francisco ^a   Hernández, Pedro A ^c   Pérez, Nemesio M ^c  

^a University of El Salvador   (El Salvador)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Instituto Tecnologico y de Enegias Renovables   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Diffuse degassing; Magmatic hydrothermal system; Mercury; Radon

Indexed keywords

DEGASSING; MERCURY (METAL); RADON; SOILS; VOLCANOES;

CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS; CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; DIFFUSE DEGASSING; DIFFUSE SOIL DEGASSING; LOW PERMEABILITY; MAGMATIC-HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS; SOIL CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL GAS CONCENTRATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGASSING; DIFFUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA FLOW; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RADON; SOIL GAS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA]; SAN MIGUEL;

EID: 33646365957     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2375-2.203     Document Type: Article

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