Controls on subsurface methane fluxes and shallow gas formation in Baltic Sea sediment (Aarhus Bay, Denmark)

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 188, Issue , 2016, Pages 297-309

  Flury, Sabine ^a   Røy, Hans ^a   Dale, Andrew W ^b   Fossing, Henrik ^a   Tóth, Zsuzsanna ^c   Spiess, Volkhard ^c   Jensen, Jørn Bo ^d   Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

35S experiment; AOM; Diffusion; Gas accumulation; Marine; Methanogenesis; Organic matter mineralization; Seabed; Seismo acoustic transect; Sulfate flux; Sulfate reduction rate

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MARINE SEDIMENT; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC MATTER; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SULFATE;

AARHUS BAY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; DENMARK; MIDTJYLLAND;

EID: 84974602150     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.05.037     Document Type: Article

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