A conduit dilation model of methane venting from lake sediments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Scandella, Benjamin P ^a   Varadharajan, Charuleka ^a,b   Hemond, Harold F ^a   Ruppel, Carolyn ^c   Juanes, Ruben ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; EARTH (PLANET); GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; EARTH'S CLIMATE; EFFECTIVE STRESS; GAS VENTING; HYDROSTATIC LOADS; INTEGRATED MODELING; LAKE SEDIMENTS; METHANE EBULLITION; METHANE FLUXES; METHANE VENTING; ORGANIC-RICH SEDIMENT; RELEASE GAS; SHALLOW-WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; UNDERLYING SURFACE;

METHANE;

DILATION; EFFECTIVE STRESS; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYDROSTATICS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; METHANE; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; TENSILE STRENGTH; VENTING; WETLAND;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES; UPPER MYSTIC LAKE;

EID: 79953220443     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046768     Document Type: Article

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