The effect of elevated methane pressure on methane hydrate dissociation

American Mineralogist

Volumn 89, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 1192-1201

  Circone, Susan ^a   Stern, Laura A ^a   Kirby, Stephen H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DISSOCIATION; HYDRATION; METHANE; SEAWATER EFFECTS;

DERIVED PARAMETERS; DISSOCIATION RATES; HYDRATE DISSOCIATION; HYDRATE STABILITIES; ISOBARIC CONDITION; ISOBARIC EXPERIMENTS; METHANE HYDRATE DISSOCIATION; METHANE HYDRATES;

GAS HYDRATES;

CLATHRATE; DISSOCIATION; GAS HYDRATE; METHANE; PRESSURE EFFECT;

EID: 4444284524     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2004-8-905     Document Type: Article

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