Extreme organic carbon burial fuels intense methane bubbling in a temperate reservoir

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sobek, Sebastian ^a,b,c   Delsontro, Tonya ^a,b   Wongfun, Nuttakan ^a,d   Wehrli, Bernhard ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VAPORS;

CARBON BALANCE; GAS BUBBLE; HIGH RATE; INLAND WATERS; METHANOGENESIS; NATURAL RIVER; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SHALLOW WATERS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BUBBLE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DELTA; EMISSION; FUEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; ORGANIC CARBON; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENTATION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 84855402727     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050144     Document Type: Article

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