Soil H2 and CO2 surveys at several active faults in Japan

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2449-2463

  Dogan, Turhan ^a,b   Mori, Toshiya ^a   Tsunomori, Fumiaki ^a   Notsu, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Active fault; CO2 degassing; Fault gas; Soil H2

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049098722     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-007-0277-5     Document Type: Article

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