Citation

Deuser WG, Degens ET, Harvey GR, Rubin M. Science 1973; 181(4094): 51-54.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1973, American Association for the Advancement of Science)

DOI

10.1126/science.181.4094.51

PMID

17769824

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.

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