Gas hydrates in convergent margins: Formation, occurrence, geochemistry, and global significance

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 124, Issue , 2000, Pages 67-86

  Kastner, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 85040217531     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM124p0067     Document Type: Chapter

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