Triple-Isotope-Based Source Apportionment of Methane in Waters of the Outer Laptev Sea
| Parent link: | AGU Fall Meeting - 2015: abstracts, San Francisco, December 14-18, 2015. [C43A-0783].— , 2015 |
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| Summary: | Title screen The East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) hosts large methane (CH4) deposits in the form of gas hydrates, gas pockets within subsea permafrost and in deeper reservoirs. For over a decade, annual expeditions have documented methane releases into the water column in large parts of this region. However, there is still insufficient knowledge of which pools are releasing the methane – one important piece of information required for a deeper understanding of the system and towards predicting future releases. A powerful tool for quantifying the relative contribution of releases from different sources is multi-dimensional isotope analysis of CH4 in the water column. Using the full triple isotope characterization (?13C-CH4, ?D-CH4, ?14C-CH4) allows deconvolution of CH4 sources between thermogenic and biogenic origins and of different reservoir ages. |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/66882 |
| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| KOHA link: | https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=648898 |