High-resolution shallow seismic identification of gas escape features in the sediments of Loch Tay, Scotland: Tectonic and microbiological associations

Sedimentology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 481-493

  Duck, Robert W ^a   Herbert, Rodney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gas escape; LochTay; Methanogenesis; Sediments; Seismic profiles

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LOCH TAY; PERTH AND KINROSS; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646712501     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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