Methane-derived hydrocarbons produced under upper-mantle conditions

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 566-570

  Kolesnikov, Anton ^a,b   Kutcherov, Vladimir G ^b,c   Goncharov, Alexander F ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MIREA RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 68749103473     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo591     Document Type: Article

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