Continental degassing flux of 4He and its variability

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Torgersen, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Continents; Degassing; Helium

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954388961     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002930     Document Type: Article

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