Freshening of near-bottom waters in Lake Baikal triggered by the Mw6.2 Kultuk earthquake of August 2008

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 453-464

  Granin, Nikolay G ^a   Radziminovich, Natalia A ^b   Granina, Liba Z ^a   Blinov, Vadim V ^a   Gnatovskiy, Ruslan Y ^a  

^a LIMNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND VALUE; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FOCAL AREA; FOUR-ORDER; HYDRATE DISSOCIATION; LAKE BAIKAL; METHANE GAS; PORE WATERS; SUSPENDED PARTICLES; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS;

GAS HYDRATES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LAKES; METHANE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKES;

BOTTOM WATER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FOCAL MECHANISM; GAS HYDRATE; METHANE; PARTICLE SIZE; POREWATER; SEISMIC SOURCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84869167817     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-012-0302-2     Document Type: Article

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