Origin and age of pore waters in an actively venting gas hydrate field near Sado Island, Japan Sea: Interpretation of halogen and 129I distributions

Chemical Geology

Volumn 236, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 350-366

  Tomaru, Hitoshi ^a   Lu, Zunli ^a   Snyder, Glen T ^b   Fehn, Udo ^a   Hiruta, Akihiro ^c   Matsumoto, Ryo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

129I; Gas hydrate; Halogen; Japan Sea; Pore water

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; GAS HYDRATE; HALOGEN; IODINE; MASS TRANSFER; METHANE; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; POREWATER; RADIONUCLIDE; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; VENTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 33845957161     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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