Adjacent releases of mantle helium and soil CO2 from active faults: Observations from the Marmara region of the North Anatolian Fault zone, Turkey

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Doǧan, Turhan ^a,b   Sumino, Hirochika ^b   Nagao, Keisuke ^b   Notsu, Kenji ^b   Tuncer, M Kemal ^c   Çelik, Cengiz ^c  

^a MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CO2 efflux; Mantle helium; Marmara region; Noble gas isotope; North anatolian fault; Soil gas

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049090942     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002745     Document Type: Article

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