Weak mixing in Lake Kivu: New insights indicate increasing risk of uncontrolled gas eruption

The deep waters of the East African Rift Lake Kivu contain large amounts of dissolved carbon dioxide and methane. The release of a fraction of these gases, which could be triggered by a magma eruption within the lake, would have catastrophic consequences for the two million people living on its shor...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems : G3 geophysics, geosystems : G3, 2005-07, Vol.6 (7), p.n/a
Hauptverfasser:	Schmid, Martin, Halbwachs, Michel, Wehrli, Bernhard, Wüest, Alfred
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	carbon dioxide double diffusion gas release Lake Kivu methane mixing processes
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