Hydrocarbon gases in Tertiary and Quaternary sediments offshore Peru

• Main Authors: Kvenvolden, Keith A, Frank, Tamara J, Golan-Bac, Margaret
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1990
• Subjects: 104-644A; 112-679; 112-680B; 112-681B; 112-681C; 112-682A; 112-683A; 112-683B; 112-684C; 112-685A; 112-686B; 112-687B; 112-688A; 112-688E; 76-533; 76-533A; 84-565; 84-568; COMPCORE; Composite Core; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Joides Resolution; Leg104; Leg112; Leg76; Leg84; North Atlantic/RIDGE; North Pacific/SLOPE; North Pacific/TRENCH; Norwegian Sea; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Pacific Ocean; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.753682; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.753682

Hydrocarbon gases (methane, ethane, propane, isobutane, n-butane, ethene, and propene) are present in Tertiary and Quaternary shelf, upper-slope, and lower-slope deposits of the Peruvian continental margin. Methane dominates the composition of the hydrocarbon gas at all 10 sites examined during Ocea...