Methane fluxes in the southeastern Baltic Sea

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 535-544

  Ulyanova, Marina ^a   Sivkov, Vadim ^a   Kanapatskij, Timur ^b   Sigalevich, Pavel ^b   Pimenov, Nikolay ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; METHANE;

BOTTOM WATER; METHANE CONCENTRATIONS; METHANE FLUXES; METHANE VENTING; MINIMUM VALUE; MUDDY SEDIMENTS; REGIONAL SCALE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

SEDIMENTS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIGITAL MAP; MARINE SEDIMENT; METHANE; MUD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GDANSK BASIN; GDANSK DEEP; GOTLAND BASIN; GOTLAND DEEP;

EID: 84869197402     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-012-0304-0     Document Type: Article

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