Methane in Lake Kivu: New Data Bearing on Its Origin
- 6 July 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 181 (4094) , 51-54
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.181.4094.51
Abstract
Lake Kivu, an African rift lake, contains about 50 cubic kilometers of methane (at standard temperature and pressure) in its deep water. Data resulting from two recent expeditions to the lake and a reevaluation of earlier data suggest that most of the methane was formed by bacteria from abiogenetic carbon dioxide and hydrogen, rather than being of volcanic origin or having formed from decomposing organic matter.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- Lake Kivu: structure, chemistry and biology of an East African rift lakeInternational Journal of Earth Sciences, 1973
- Calculated fractionation factors for carbon and hydrogen isotope exchange in the system calcite-carbon dioxide-graphite-methane-hydrogen-water vaporGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1969
- Methanobacillus omelianskii, a symbiotic association of two species of bacteriaArchiv für Mikrobiologie, 1967
- A NEW CASE OF CONVECTION IN THE PRESENCE OF COMBINED VERTICAL SALINITY AND TEMPERATURE GRADIENTSProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1964
- Dissolved Gases in East African LakesNature, 1963
- Dissolved Gases in East African LakesNature, 1963
- The geochemistry of the stable carbon isotopesGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1953