Molecular and isotopic compositions of gases adsorbed to near surface sediments at Starunia palaeontological site and vicinity (Carpathian region, Ukraine)

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 421-437

  Dzieniewicz, Marek ^a   Sechman, Henryk ^a   Kotarba, Maciej J ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adsorbed gases; Carpathian region; Near surface geochemical survey; Origin of carbon dioxide; Origin of gaseous hydrocarbons; Quaternary sediments; Starunia palaeontological site; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ALKANE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CARPATHIANS; UKRAINE;

COELODONTA ANTIQUITATIS; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 75349111486     PISSN: 02089068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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