Quantification of methane emission from bacterial mat sites at Quepos Slide offshore Costa Rica

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1817-1829

  Karaca, Deniz ^a   Schleicher, Tina ^b   Hensen, Christian ^a   Linke, Peter ^a   Wallmann, Klaus ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial mats; Central American margin; Fluid seepage; Methane; Reactive transport modeling; Submarine landslide

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; METHANE; MICROBIAL MAT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SEAFLOOR; SEEPAGE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; WATER COLUMN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84908572937     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-012-0839-3     Document Type: Article

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