Response to comment on "a persistent oxygen anomaly reveals the fate of spilled methane in the Deep Gulf of Mexico"

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6033, 2011, Pages

  Kessler, John D ^a   Valentine, David L ^b   Redmond, Molly C ^b   Du, Mengran ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOCUSATE SODIUM; METHANE; METHANOL; OIL; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILTER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FLOW RATE; GULF STREAM; HYPOTHESIS; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; METHYLOPHILACEAE; MEXICO; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OIL SPILL; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

EID: 79957625387     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1203428     Document Type: Note

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