abiogenic

Methane in the subsurface can come from three sources: microbes, the high-temperature breakdown of…

Subduction zones, where the edge of one tectonic plate slips beneath another, have earned the…

A new study by DCO researchers finds striking similarities between methane from very diverse vents…

Rather than forming from living material, abiogenic hydrocarbons form from inorganic reactions…

Much research on subsurface methane has focused on biotic methane, which is produced by…

Methane is not only an important energy resource and a major component of biogeochemical cycles,…

Dissolved H2 concentrations up to the mM range and H2 levels up to 9 to 58% by volume in the free…

Hydrogen isotope (2H and 1H) exchange between hydrocarbons and water under hydrothermal conditions…