Coseimic massive methane release from a submarine mud volcano

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 341-344, Issue , 2012, Pages 79-85

  Tsunogai, Urumu ^a,d   Maegawa, Kenji ^a   Sato, Shintaro ^a   Komatsu, Dasiuke D ^a   Nakagawa, Fumiko ^a   Toki, Tomohiro ^b   Ashi, Juichiro ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Eruption; Methane plume; Mud volcano; Stable carbon isotopes

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE RATES; ERUPTION; METHANE PLUMES; MUD VOLCANOES; PLUME SPREAD; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WATER COLUMNS;

EARTHQUAKES; ISOTOPES; SUBMARINES; VOLCANOES;

METHANE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; METHANE; MUD VOLCANO; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863491345     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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