Methane Release from a Brackish Intertidal Salt-Marsh Embayment of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland

1 June 1981

journal article
research article
Published by Springer Nature in Estuaries

Vol. 4 (2) , 143-145
https://doi.org/10.2307/1351677

Abstract

Gaseous methane loss from a brackish, intertidal salt marsh sediment was measured in April, June, August, and October 1977. Twenty-four sediment cores were taken on each date. Annual loss of methane carbon from the mud flats was 10.7 g CH₄−C per m² per year, a value closer to freshwater values than marine systems. Loss of methane fromSpartina peat was low.

Keywords

SALT MARSH
METHANOGENESIS
METHANE RELEASE
METHANE CARBON
SULFATE DEPLETION

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Microbial production of an estuarine mudflat
Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science, 1978
Methane release from soils of a Georgia salt marsh
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1978