Methane discharge into the Black Sea and the global ocean via fluid flow through submarine mud volcanoes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 545-560

  Wallmann, Klaus ^a   Drews, Manuela ^a   Aloisi, Giovanni ^a,b   Bohrmann, Gerhard ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

anaerobic oxidation of methane; Black Sea; methane fluxes; numerical modelling; submarine mud volcanoes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEWATERING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LIQUID METHANE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANAEROBIC OXIDATION; METHANE DISCHARGE; METHANE FLUXES; RADIOTRACER INCUBATION METHOD; SUBMARINE MUD VOLCANOES;

VOLCANOES;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DEWATERING; DISCHARGE; FLUID FLOW; METHANE; MUD VOLCANO; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; TRACER;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA;

DASHEEN MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 33746733087     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.026     Document Type: Article

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