A carbonate platform associated with shallow cold methane seeps in Golfo Dulce, Pacific Costa Rica

 

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Autoren: Wild, Christian, Rixen, Tim, Sánchez Noguera, Celeste, Merico, Agostino, Jiménez Centeno, Carlos, Cortés Núñez, Jorge, Naumann, Malik S.
Format: artículo original
Publikationsdatum:2015
Beschreibung:Marine methane seeps are typically observed in cold, anoxic and organic-rich deep-sea environments, such as in the Black Sea, where methane emissions fuel the authigenic accretion of calcium carbonate structures via microbial sulphate reduction and anaerobic methane oxidation (Michaelis et al. 2002). For shallow tropical waters, methane seeps are only known from hydrothermal vents (Nakamura et al. 2006). Here, we report about our recent discovery of a cold methane seep in warm (ca. 29℃) and O2-saturated (97-100%) Golfo Dulce (8.496450°N, 83.262610°W) that is located at the Southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Central America.
Land:Kérwá
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/75294
Online Zugang:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/galaxea/17/1/17_13/_article
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/75294
Stichwort:Carbonate platform
Methane seep
Golfo Dulce
Costa Rica
Porites lobata
Halimeda