Chemical aspects of a brine pool at the East Flower Garden bank, northwestern Gulf of Mexico
A small pool on the flank of the East Flower Garden bank at a depth of 72 m in the Gulf of Mexico contains anoxic, hypersaline (-200 g * kg-l) water. The flux of brine into and out of the pool contributes to erosional processes on the bank. The bulk ionic composition of the brine is similar to that...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.533.8384 2023-05-15T17:53:46+02:00 Chemical aspects of a brine pool at the East Flower Garden bank, northwestern Gulf of Mexico Jumes M. Brooks Thomasj Bright Bernie B. Bernard Claude R. Schwab The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1979 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.533.8384 http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_24/issue_4/0735.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.533.8384 http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_24/issue_4/0735.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_24/issue_4/0735.pdf text 1979 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T10:43:52Z A small pool on the flank of the East Flower Garden bank at a depth of 72 m in the Gulf of Mexico contains anoxic, hypersaline (-200 g * kg-l) water. The flux of brine into and out of the pool contributes to erosional processes on the bank. The bulk ionic composition of the brine is similar to that of the Orca Basin brine, but differences between the two in gaseous hydrocarbon and carbon isotope content indicate different modes of origin. High levels of bacterial activity in the brine are indicated by ATP (X30 ngsliter-‘), hydrogen sulfide (>2,000 pmol.liter-l), isotopically light I;COz (6r3C =-23%0), and the apparent generation of ele-mental sulfur. In September 1976, a brine pool (Fig. 1) in a depression on the East Flower Garden (EFG) bank (27”53’N, 93’38’W) was discovered at a depth of 72 m (using the Texas A&M University research sub-mersible DRV Diuphus and research Text Orca Unknown |
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A small pool on the flank of the East Flower Garden bank at a depth of 72 m in the Gulf of Mexico contains anoxic, hypersaline (-200 g * kg-l) water. The flux of brine into and out of the pool contributes to erosional processes on the bank. The bulk ionic composition of the brine is similar to that of the Orca Basin brine, but differences between the two in gaseous hydrocarbon and carbon isotope content indicate different modes of origin. High levels of bacterial activity in the brine are indicated by ATP (X30 ngsliter-‘), hydrogen sulfide (>2,000 pmol.liter-l), isotopically light I;COz (6r3C =-23%0), and the apparent generation of ele-mental sulfur. In September 1976, a brine pool (Fig. 1) in a depression on the East Flower Garden (EFG) bank (27”53’N, 93’38’W) was discovered at a depth of 72 m (using the Texas A&M University research sub-mersible DRV Diuphus and research |
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