Sources of fluids and gases expelled at cold seeps offshore Georgia, eastern Black Sea

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3250-3268

  Reitz, Anja ^a   Pape, Thomas ^b   Haeckel, Matthias ^a   Schmidt, Mark ^a   Berner, Ulrich ^c   Scholz, Florian ^a   Liebetrau, Volker ^a   Aloisi, Giovanni ^a,d   Weise, Stephan M ^e   Wallmann, Klaus ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD SEEP; GAS HYDRATE; GAS SEEPAGE; HYDROCARBON RESERVE; HYDROCARBON SEEP; ISOTOPIC RATIO; OLIGOCENE; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SALINITY; SOURCE ROCK; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

BLACK SEA;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79955471043     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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