Microbial carbon isotope fractionation to produce extraordinarily heavy methane in aging hydrothermal plumes over the southwestern Okinawa Trough

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 477-487

  Gamo, Toshitaka ^a,b   Tsunogai, Urumu ^a   Ichibayashi, Shinsuke ^a   Chiba, Hitoshi ^c   Obata, Hajime ^b   Oomori, Tamotsu ^d   Noguchi, Takuro ^d   Baker, Edward T ^e   Doi, Takashi ^f   Maruo, Masahiro ^f   Sano, Yuji ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope fractionation; Hydrothermal plume chemistry; Microbial methane oxidation; Southern Okinawa Trough

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED MATTER; GAS PRODUCTION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METHANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EAST CHINA SEA; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79957938848     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.1.0097     Document Type: Article

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