Monitoring of a methane-seeping pockmark by cabled benthic observatory (Patras Gulf, Greece)

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 297-302

  Marinaro, Giuditta ^a   Etiope, Giuseppe ^a   Bue, Nadia Lo ^a   Favali, Paolo ^a,b   Papatheodorou, George ^c   Christodoulou, Dimitris ^c   Furlan, Flavio ^d   Gasparoni, Francesco ^d   Ferentinos, George ^c   Masson, Michel ^e   Rolin, Jean François ^f  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d Tecnomare SpA   (Italy)

^e FRANATECH GmbH   (Germany)

^f IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; METHANE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SEEPAGE; SENSORS; SUBMARINE CABLES; TEMPERATURE;

CABLED BENTHIC OBSERVATORY; GAS MONITORING MODULE; METHANE-SEEPING POCKMARK; PASSIVE FLUID RELEASE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METHANE; POCKMARK; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; SEEPAGE;

GULF OF PATRAS; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33750048142     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-006-0040-4     Document Type: Article

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