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Science 6 July 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4094, pp. 51 - 54
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4094.51
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Methane in Lake Kivu: New Data Bearing on Its Origin

W. G. Deuser 1, E. T. Degens 1, G. R. Harvey 1, and M. Rubin 2

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
2 U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. 20242

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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